OK, Lig & Al, you'll want to hear about this.  You know the way we always give CJ a hard time about thinking he's [CJ, read "being"] an apostle?  Get this.  Someone in my study the other day asked if we should "open the NT canon" in order to add CJ's book on Humility as the 28th book.

3 ESSENTIAL OBSERVATIONS about this comment.  1)  It was made in some humor by someone who very much beleives in a closed canon (as even our apostolic friend does!); 2)  There is some truth in recognizing the extraordinary merit of this book;  3) I was the one who raised that question.

Pastors are tempted to be proud people.  All Christians are tempted to pride.  This book is like water to a soul parched by pride (I should know--I read it!).  To change the image, humility limbers us up for obedience.  It lubricates our joints--stiff with pride--for wonderful change, for increased conformity to God, and His wonderful plan for u