Tuesday, October 25, 2005

We know that pride is bad enough to make the top ten on the sin chart, so the antonym must be in the top ten virtues.

In the evangelical Christian circles where I grew up, it was important to be humble, unassuming, modest, meek, self-effacing, and deferential. These are good characteristics when compared with arrogance, conceit, condescension, and egotism. But I’ve come to think that both ends of the spectrum are unhealthy. Humility has become distorted when it manifests itself as “I’m no good.” or “Everyone else is right and I’m wrong.” Humility that denigrates God's human creation ignores the fact that we are made in the "image of God."

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