tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216067962317835098.post1623368915773735141..comments2023-09-10T03:32:56.323-07:00Comments on Chris Wienand: REFLECTIONS FROM THE DESERTjust thinkinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843597344312436968noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216067962317835098.post-88505449361973865792010-07-13T06:26:56.221-07:002010-07-13T06:26:56.221-07:00Chris - glad you discovered your keyboard again!
...Chris - glad you discovered your keyboard again!<br /><br />It was Tertullian who said: "Just as Christ was crucified between two thieves, so this doctrine of justification is ever crucified between two opposite errors." Of course, he was talking about the errors of graceless truth and truthless grace - and therein lies so much of our struggle. We spend our lives trying to exist somewhere in the middle; we can never do it, it is not what Jesus was: He was full of both!<br /><br />We were faced with a difficult pastoral situation this morning wherein everything was crying out for grace-compromise, and yet obedience to the truth could not be avoided or circumnavigated! Oh, how difficult we find holding the fulness of grace and truth in the same frenzied moment! How desperate for the power of Christ!<br /><br />Grace pleads on behalf of the truth!<br /><br />O yes... thanks for the reminder to avoid the superstar who makes a ministry out of telling others not to be superstars! Ironic?!<br /><br />Blessings, ColinExtending Boundarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157907233363080249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216067962317835098.post-20455229770513506472010-07-13T04:05:56.987-07:002010-07-13T04:05:56.987-07:00Appreciate you Chris! Words written from places th...Appreciate you Chris! Words written from places that textbooks know nothing about... the master's welcome of "well done good and faithful" awaits (and presently whispers)<br />DBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216067962317835098.post-65240398936306477532010-07-12T10:47:41.144-07:002010-07-12T10:47:41.144-07:00Great read Chris ... really enjoyed the section on...Great read Chris ... really enjoyed the section on self promotion, been so challenged by this latelyTony Sivewrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642008295092820984noreply@blogger.com