Evergreen Christian Community

Romans 12:3-8 The problem with ME How Jesus sets me free from ME How the free me contributes to WE “People with high self-esteem pose a greater threat to those around them than people with low self-esteem and feeling bad about yourself is not the source of our country’s biggest, most expensive social problems.” - Lauren Slater, The Trouble With Self-Esteem, The New York Times magazine, Feb 3, 2002 “If Christians lived out what they believed about the teachings of Jesus, we would all be Christians.” Gandhi 1 Corinthians 4:6-7 Sinful pride is the illusion that we are competent to run our own lives, achieve our own sense of self-worth, and find a purpose big enough to give us meaning in life without God. “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next person. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or