Ok, so I am on a bit of a Piper kick. In the below video you will see one of the best described examples of the shortcomings of the emerging movement. Unfortunately I believe that many evangelicals are doing exactly the same thing. Sound off in the comments!
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In the below video, John Piper challenges us (in particular church leadership) to do something that may/will cost you everything.
The real issue here is not if pride exists in your heart; it’s where pride exists and how pride is being expressed in your life. Scripture shows us that pride is strongly and dangerously rooted in our lives, far more than most of us care to admit or even think about.
~C.J. Mahaney, “Humility: True Greatness”
1 Corinthians 6:12 (NKJV) 12All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1 Corinthians 10:23 (NKJV) 23All things are lawful £for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful £for me, but not all things edify.
The first century church at Corinth was confronted with the then enlightened libertine philosophy of a Greek culture. The phrase “all things are lawful” was the common mantra. The Greeks just could not be bound by any personal limitations. Having in the preceding paragraph declared that the immoral cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and having given special prominence to sins against the seventh commandment, the Apostle comes to this passage (1 Corinthians 6:12) to consider the ground on which the violations of that commandment were defended or given a pass. That ground was a gross perversion of the principle of Christian liberty. Paul was accustomed to say in reference to the ceremonial or positive enactments of the Jewish law, and especially in reference to the distinction between clean and unclean means, “All things are lawful to me.” As the Greeks and Romans generally regarded fornication as belonging to the class of things indifferent, that is, not immoral in themselves; it is not surprising that some of the Corinthians educated in that belief should retain and act on the principle even after their profession of Christianity.
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