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Sunday we will look at, among other words from Holy Scripture, Philippians 1:27-30. Contained there is the idea of our focus as Christians being upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.
A Don Carson quote caught me last week and has stuck with me:
What we must ask one another is this:
What is it in the Christian faith that excites you?
What consumes your time? What turns you on?
Today there are endless subgroups of confessing Christians who invest enormous quantities of time and energy in one issue or another:
abortion,
pornography,
home schooling,
women’s ordination (for or against),
economic justice,
a certain style of worship,
the defense of a particular Bible version,
AND MUCH MORE.
The list varies from country to country, but not a few countries have a full agenda of urgent, peripheral demands. Not for a moment am I suggesting we should not think about such matters or throw our weight behind some of them. But when such matters devour most of our time and passion, each of us must ask:
In what fashion am I confessing the centrality of the gospel? –D.Carson
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