The Part We Leave Out- But Shouldn’t
When we attempt to encourage people to grow in the faith, we like to leave out the more difficult aspects. We want to make it as pleasing as possible. However, that is not the truth of the Christian faith. We do a disservice to Christ, ourselves, and those we mentor if we breeze past the full scope of our walk with God.
As Scot McKnight writes:
“The gospel is something that summons a person to the core of that person’s being. It summons that person to die. “When Jesus calls a man, he bids him come and die” — so the famous (paraphrastic) translation of Bonhoeffer.”
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