daily word - better or worse?

Is your faith making you better or worse? Hopefully better, but both are possibilities. Are you familiar with all the passages about the Pharisees? They were the religious establishment in their day as you are in yours. When you read about them, are you glad that you are not like them? But then they also were glad that they were not like others, such as the sinner whose prayer was accepted for justification. Church people have a different set of issues to deal with than those outside, but both are real. Examine yourself that you may remain free of the leaven of the Pharisees.