Learning to follow Christ involves decisions that run counter our culture, against what we once were. We are becoming someone new, different than the majority. Group think, going along with the crowd can be a bumpy ride. Harod knew better than to allow the execution of John the Baptist. Doing the next fight thing can be difficult. I can easily hide behind a good image rather than being radical in my decisions. I can blend in rather than stick out. But being average lowers the average as I fade into the background. What does it mean for you to have a courageous faith?
“A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
The hidden dimension of each human life is not visible to others, nor is it fully graspable even by ourselves. We usually know very little about the things that move in our own soul, the deepest level of our life, or what is driving it. Our “within” is astonishingly complex and subtle—even devious. It takes on a life of its own. Only God knows our depths, who we are, and what we would do.” - Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
“I've never met anyone who doesn't want to be good. Desperately. But I've also never met anyone who wasn't ready to do evil.” - The Dallas Willard Podcast: #37. ‘How Our Hearts and Lives are Broken and the Promise of Healing’ (2003), May 26, 2025
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