"If life is a river, thence pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When nosotros destination swimming, or actively next Him, nosotros automatically start out to live on swept downstream."
— Francis Chan
It's e'er easier to "go alongside the flow."
Our civilization denies the truth of God's teachings virtually homosexuality, premarital sex, pornography, materialism, unsmooth language, dishonesty, as well as selfishness.
It's truthful that "the wicked freely strut virtually when what is vile is honored inward amid men" (Psalm 12:8)*
And no i wants to remove heed God's teachings virtually Hell, jurist as well as punishment.
But Francis Chan offers wisdom inward that expanse too: "I actually believe it's fourth dimension for approximately of us to destination apologizing for God as well as outset apologizing to Him for beingness embarrassed past times the ways He has chosen to let on Himself.”
When nosotros deny, ignore, as well as downplay whatever chemical component of God's Truth, nosotros volition live on carried downstream.
Let's role God's pull to swim upstream into the pure mount brook of Living Water as well as never furnish to the filthy sea of cultural conformity.
* NIV 1987
