Boasting Is The Outward Form Of The

Every Spirit That Does Not Confess Jesus Is Not From God.

So You Can See What Is Happening In The New Testament. Worship Is Being Significantly Deinstitutionalized, Delocalized, De-externalized. The Whole Thrust Is Being Taken Off Of Ceremony And Seasons And Places And Forms And Is Being Shifted To What Is Happening In The Heart - Not Just On Sunday But Every Day And All The Time In All Of Life.

John's Baptism...was A Radical Act Of Individual Commitment To Belong To The True People Of God, Based On Personal Confession And Repentance... This Is One Of The Main Reasons That I Do Not Believe In Baptizing Infants, Who Cannot Make This Personal Commitment Or Confession Or Repentance. John's Baptism Was An Assault On The Very Assumptions That Give Rise To Much Infant Baptism.

Every Good Thing In The Christian Life Grows In The Soil Of Humility. Without Humility, Every Virtue And Every Grace Withers. That’s Why Calvin Said Humility Is First, Second, And Third In The Christian Faith.

Does Christ Get A Good Reputation Because Of The Way We Live? Is The Excellence Of Christ Displayed In Our Lives? That Should Matter To Us, Not Whether We Ourselves Are Praised.