Should Christians be Pharisees? Should we follow the apostle Paul’s example in this? Do you remember the following incident from Acts 23: “Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead.”” (Acts 23:6) Does this mean that it’s okay for Christians to be Pharisees?

Paul, in similar circumstances, made use of his Roman citizenship. Time and again, when discussing issues related to our heavenly citizenship, people refer to those incidents to say that we should be proud of our earthly citizenship. If that’s so, what lessons are we supposed to draw from Paul’s actions in Acts 23? In what ways are Christians to live as Pharisees?