Everybody wants to go deeper, but nobody wants to go down. Discontent will lead in one of two directions: distraction or depth.
True growth most often begins with a growing sense of dissonance—of being dissatisfied with the way things are.
Holy discontent is the distance between the truth one knows and the reality one experiences.
Training in godliness can’t be reduced to reading a bunch of things other people are saying about God and his Word.
This second half of the gospel is a “participation” in his life—what he has done and what he is now doing.
The second half challenge is not a believe and behave program but learning a glorious life of beholding and becoming.
We must break free from the whole concept of a “devotional” or even a “spiritual” life. The second half of the gospel invites and empowers a comprehensive new way of living.
Though the outside circumstances may not change today or tomorrow or ever, he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
“There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them too closely to disown themselves.”
The second half of the gospel is not a one time reckoning but an every day reality check.
“There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them too closely to disown themselves.”
The first half of the gospel is the revelation that in Jesus Christ we are rescued from the gravity of sin, death, and darkness and delivered into the gravity of love, life, and light.
