Our natural drifts away from godliness

Here's a great warning and encouragement to be proactive in our Christian life from Don Carson.


One of the most striking evidences of sinful human nature lies in the universal propensity for downward drift.

In other words, it takes thought, resolve, energy, and effort to bring about reform.

In the grace of God, sometimes human beings display such virtues. But where such virtues are absent, the drift is invariably toward compromise, comfort, indiscipline, sliding disobedience and decay that advances, sometimes at a crawl and sometimes at a gallop, across generations.

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

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.

Taken from D.A. Carson, For the Love of God, volume 2, Jan. 23 entry:

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Make it Count - Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott live via webcast

Here's a special opportunity to hear from our political leaders in view of this years federal election.
Crossroads will be hosting a webcast open to all from 7pm on June 21 in the Copland Theatre, ANU (end of Kingsley St).