People don’t drift…
Recently I ran across this quote from Don Carson, one of the shining beacons from my seminary days:
People do not drift toward holiness…We drift toward compromise and call it
tolerance.
We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom.
We drift toward superstition and call it faith.
We cherish the indiscipline of lost
self-control and call it relaxation.
We slouch toward prayerlessness and
delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism.
We slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
D. A. Carson, For the Love of God
tolerance.
We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom.
We drift toward superstition and call it faith.
We cherish the indiscipline of lost
self-control and call it relaxation.
We slouch toward prayerlessness and
delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism.
We slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
D. A. Carson, For the Love of God