The Recycled Pharisee

<p>Some people may think that Pharisees are only found in the Bible. However there are pharisees in every culture and generation people who because of their status education cultural advantage or position believe they have earned the right to be right. I was such a person for the first half of my life. I believed that because of my role as a priest in the Episcopal Church it was my job to be right so that I could help others avoid being wrong! Then I had a face-to-face confrontation with the one true living God of the universe who began to teach me what being right was really about. With God's help during the second half of my life I have grown from being a self-righteous (and some would say pompous) jerk to becoming a humble servant living in His righteousness!</p>