Perhaps Paul wasn’t proving his qualifications to his audience as much as he was reminding himself?
Tag: accountability
We work throughout our marriage and our lifetime to live God’s way.
Job reminds us: we have an obligation to speak the truth about God to our friends. God expects us to be forthright with our knowledge of Him AND accurate in our theology. Anything less injures. Forthright and inaccurate bludgeons the beholder. Timid but accurate won’t accomplish anything Kingdom.
What role did people pleasing play in Pilate’s encounter with Jesus?
Just the act of two setting out together to do ministry in tandem invites Jesus into their work.
Each of our starts and stops and total failures are written down but like our Israelites, the faithfulness of God overshadows every entry.
“Oh what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it really is; in my mind I obey God’s law but…