His Increase, Our Decrease, and the Issue of Self Denial
Well said and follows along with what you’ve been sharing recently. Self-denial is not easy, but the Way of the Cross was not an easy one for our King and we are called to follow Him.
Matt. 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
I was very challenged by something I read this morning. I was challenged by how a very important Biblical truth is being ignored to the vast detriment of the health of the evangelical church and how this church has found itself so flat footed in the face of one of the greatest theological, ethical, social, and political challenges it is confronted with today.
The truth is found in the verses above. Jesus calls us to deny…
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