Are people good? (Mark 10:17-31)
We are worthy, loved, and enough. But so is everyone else.
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Last month, within the span of two days I heard two churchgoing people declare that people are “basically good.” First, a young adult, who explained to me that greed could be eliminated if “there was no such thing as 10 million dollars.” Second, a lady with curly white hair, who added that she thinks including confession and the assurance of pardon in Sunday worship is “overdoing” things.
