The Two Words That Signify Mature, Adult Christianity
Adult Christianity implies that I have come to the realization that others are paying attention to “my way of life in Christ Jesus.”
Adult Christianity implies that I have come to the realization that others are paying attention to “my way of life in Christ Jesus.”
We all must be ready to step over the line from the respectability of conventional religion into the foolishness of the cross.
Becoming a real Christian means bringing everything that once distinguished us and divided us from other people under the cross of Jesus where it can all be transformed into the creativity of holy love.
Our big problem is the way we confuse our identity with our role, mistaking our worth as a person with our performance of a job.
The appeal for unity at all cost in the face of actual division over orthodoxy can itself become a type of heresy which destroys the church from within.
God’s Spirit tabernacles in the midst of God’s people; not apart from the world but right in the midst of the world.
What we most need in the season ahead are gospel movements led by people without being built around personalities.
Becoming a mature follower of Jesus Christ necessarily means leaving behind worldliness without leaving behind the world.
Discipleship only happens in the midst of a community of people who prefer one another over themselves and who together learn to love one another with the supernatural holy love of God.
The proclamation of the gospel is simply not the domain of the “great” communicators. It is the humble privilege of broken men and women who are themselves being daily remade.