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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, a vicar in the Church of England. It's reported that in the early 1900s, the Times newspaper asked some famous authors to respond to the question
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what's wrong with the world today? One reply read simply, dear sir, I am
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Yours faithfully, G.K. Chesterton. If we ran a poll on that same question today, I'm sure we'd get a wide range of responses
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But I don't suppose many would say, I am. Over human history, the world has changed a lot
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But if there's one thing that really hasn't changed, it's human nature
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We're very ready to point out the faults in others and very slow to see them in ourselves
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It like in all our heads there a legal team ready to launch a prosecution whenever someone else does something wrong and to mount a defence whenever we do Jesus put his finger right on the issue when he said
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why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
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It's a sure sign of pride when we're more concerned about other people's sins
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than we are about our own. The only way to get the legal team in our heads to stand down is to know that the verdict's already in
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As a Christian, I believe that through faith in Jesus, anyone can be declared not guilty because he was declared guilty for us when he died on the cross
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and when you know you're forgiven you're finally free to admit the truth about yourself
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and to show others the same grace you've received
