Jesus seeks to destabilize our arrogance and construct a new way of thinking and acting in its place. While religious outwardism crushes the ego, the anti-kingdom outlook coddles it. Jesus offers a third way, one in which the ego can breathe at ease. Remember that for the “middle-class in spirit” life is their film and …
The Day I Got My “Whatever” Back (part two)
I’M SUPPOSED TO DO WHATEVER… These passages seem pretty clear about God’s “whatever” approach… Jeremiah 1:7 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.” “Whatever” he commands is what he expects, and to my excuses …
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