There is an instant, if only that brief, where we don\u2019t care about ourselves.\u00a0 We are lost in, engulfed in, the love of God revealed to us through the death of Jesus.\u00a0 Since He died for us and made it be about us, we realize we can forget about ourselves.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the moment passes.\u00a0 We revert to pre-salvation, self-centered thinking, which gets married to and supported by incorrect Christian teaching.\u00a0 We begin to believe that since He made it be about us, we should also.\u00a0 Our liberty, freedom from self-awareness, is now gone.\u00a0 We begin the slide to practical atheism that leaves us no different in outlook than the world.\u00a0 If that is not tragic enough, we convince ourselves that the slide is actually maturity in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is an instant, if only that brief, where we don\u2019t care about ourselves.\u00a0 We are lost in, engulfed in, the love of God revealed to us through the death of Jesus.\u00a0 Since He died for us and made it be about us, we realize we can forget about ourselves.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the moment passes.\u00a0 We … Continue reading Sublime Selflessness or a Gospel of Self<\/span>