True Spirituality

Christ’s rejection and death are the first steps in the order of redemption, so our rejection and death to things and self are the first steps in the order of true and growing spirituality.

The center of the Christian message is the redemptive death of Jesus Christ.

Let us notice that this is the very center of the Christian message. Its center is not Christ’s life, nor his miracles, but his death.

There is also very much the demand that in practice we are to die daily

The Christian negative is not a nihilist negative—there is a true biblical negative—but the Christian life does not stop with a negative. There is a true life in the present as well as in the future.

There is a biblical negative and then a positive.

true spirituality, the Christian life

The beginning of man’s rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

Here I am told that if I am a true Christian, “all things” work together for my good

I am to love God enough to be contented; second, I am to love men enough not to envy.