So, you will have no problem noting exemplary ones after all.
I certainly couldn’t fill Blessed Teresa’s shoes, nor could even approach the martyrs who we call saints.
I’d have to have either a narcissistic bent or a huge ego to claim I live according to their lives in Christ.
I do the best I can with the Grace I’m given but I’ve never considered tarring those who fulfill the Lord’s Words better because of unacknowledged jealousy or some disguised Pride.
Id have to have either a narcissistic bent or a huge ego to claim I live according to their lives in Christ.
However, the bible clearly teaches us not to be “respectors of men”. I don’t know what lurks in the hearts of other men but, being a man, I know the heart of men. I see all Christians as equal.