The Man at The Bottom

Contrary to popular belief, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is about bad people coping with their failure to be good. That is to say, Christianity concerns the gospel, which is nothing more or less than the good news that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15). “[Christ] was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification” (Romans 4:25). The gospel is a proclamation that always addresses sinners and sufferers directly (i.e., you and me). The prevailing view in much of contemporary Christianity […]

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Blessed Self-Forgetfulness

The way many of us think about sanctification is, well…not very sanctified. In fact, it’s terribly narcissistic. We spend too much time thinking about how we’re doing, if we’re growing and whether we’re doing it right or not. We spend too much time pondering our spiritual failures and brooding over our spiritual successes. Somewhere along the way, we have come to believe that the focus of the Christian faith is the life of the Christian. Reflecting this common assumption, someone who was frustrated with something I had written said to me not long ago, “Don’t you know that the focus […]

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