"Wouldn't it be amazing if Christianity was really like this? In a place of spiritual battle, daily discipline, the development of character through trial and error, patience, perseverance, and testing, we would have...the world. By simply following a set of steps, rules, and guidelines we would find that we pretty much have it sewn.
That is what we humans really want.
A life that works out great for me.
But the most difficult thing about Christianity is that it doesn't have anything to do with me. What I mean is that we are called to lose ourselves in order to find ourselves. We give our lives in humility and servitude to Jesus, and He in return gives us eternal life and salvation, along with a life of joy and peace as long as we remain in Him. But along the way we must put others before ourselves. And we will find meaning and contentment not in self-actualization, but in giving ourselves in submission to Him and to one another in fellowship. These are all fundamental concepts to a Biblical approach to living."
From the article, "A Perfect Life, Part I,
by Andrew Schwab
Wow, that's really good. It brings me to think about humility/serving and being stepped upon. I will think about this more. Is this from one of the articles you found on that one website?
ReplyDeleteIt's from Andrew Schwab's blog (he's the lead singer of project 86) and this is the site: http://www.andrewschwab.com/blog/ however this article is from 2007 so it may be hard to find. oh, and it's a lot longer, this is just the ending...next time we're together you should read it, because it's in my bible somewhere:)
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