As Mark McMinn puts it, “Part of our mess is not knowing we are a mess.”3 We live quiet lives, never robbing a bank or committing a murder. None of us has been employed as a slave trader or held the robes of those throwing rocks at a martyr. We confuse calmness with holiness. It’s been observed in surveys that the average person believes he is better than the average person.4 We are blind to our own blindness. It is the Pharisee in the temple, smug in his assumed righteousness, who concerns Paul