Pride is a real problem for the church.

I see it as an especially big problem in churches where the preachers do not how to separate the law from the gospel and the law (what we do) is constantly put forward as a way to advance in the Christian life. Of course the law is then watered down to make it managable, and those that believe they are ‘doing a pretty fair job’ at doing what the pareacher is telling them to do, become puffed up with pride and look down those noses at the real sinners who just can’t cut it.

In truth, we ALL just can’t cut it. But we have One who has cut it, for us.

Thanks.

Thank you for your contributions that you make in the Kingdom of God for His glorification.

There is so much to say about all of the wonderful points you have made but for now I’ll use them for points of reflection.

One thing that I would like to contribute is in relation to;

“Part of that is because of how fallen humanity normalizes pride.”

It is extremely unfortunate that we don’t revere the man of humility. We are instead rewarded for our pride. It is necessary for us to bask in our pride as a means of demonstrating our competences for job interviews. We find ourselves boasting on our achievements as if we had anything without receiving it (1 Corinthians 4:7).

It doesn’t end here though. As precious as our society deems children, in it’s depravity, society remains ignorant of the lies that it deludes our children with by and through the rhetoric of self-esteem. The lie that you can do anything you set your mind on teaches self-righteous idolatry. As if our sovereignty reigned supreme over the Lord God Almighty is perhaps as offensive to God as the Gospel is to carnal man.

May it all be for His glory,
W.