Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
Has it ever bothered you, if you are a follower of Christ, that you often don’t see the moral transformation in your life you think you should see? I imagine we all find ourselves dealing with this frustration from time to time. Dallas Willard, in his book, The Great Omission, notes that, “We want to do good, but we are prepared, ready, to do evil.” In other words there is a part of us that wants to act like Christ but there is a stronger part of us that is always ready to rebel whenever the situation requires it.
Willard notes that unless we are prepared to become apprentices in the Kingdom of God ready to put into practice the words of Christ, we will remain locked in moral defeat. If, however, we are ready to actually act out the words of Christ and apply them to every day life we will find that we begin to better understand ourselves and the Kingdom of God.
This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit quaillake.org.
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