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Part 3 of 5, over the next 5 weeks we will be talking about Relationship. There are two types of people in the world and it is what the narrative of any good story is centered upon. It is a narrative we tend to believe of about pretty much everything. That narrative being one of Good Vs. Evil. Good is always relative and tends to be defined as a biography of the one giving the definition. This definition being driven by pride and the desire to elevate ourselves. In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis says that "Pride is competitive in its nature, that Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more than the next person." This type of Pride, evil sinnfull Pride that comes from comparison, "the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unfaithfulness, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind." In Luke 18:4-9, Jesus draws the line between humble people and proud people; those who have humility and those who are prideful. Is your story like that of the Pharisee and the Devil? If you want to be a rebel, you can be... but it will destroy you. Humility, is having a sober sense of reality. In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis says "In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison—you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you." "... If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize that you are proud. If you think that you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed."