The gospel is the most important truth in a Christian's life but it is often forgotten in the business of daily life and eagerness to learn something "new." The result of this is always bad. We loose our joy, our focus, and our purpose. Mahaney says that the signs of not living a cross centered life are obvious, and then poses the following qualities of a person in this position to help us determine if this could be us.
- You often lack joy.
- You're not consistently growing in spiritual maturity.
- Your love for God lacks passion.
- You're always looking for some new technique, some "new truth" or new experience that will pull all the pieces of your faith together.
The sad reality is that most of us live in the list I quoted from the book rather than the scene I just described. We are far from joyful, spending most of our days caught up in busywork and struggling with depression and anxiety. We don't share the gospel with our friends and neighbors because we are shy or scared or because we simply don't think to. And this is sad, friends. This is wrong.
Join me in rediscovering the great truth of the gospel, of recovering the joy you had when you first were saved. "The key to joy, to growth, to passion isn't hiding from you. It's right before your eyes.
It's the gospel."
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