Mar 26
Today from the Desiring God Blog, a poignant reminder to us all (yes me at the top of the list) that it’s not possible to lift ourselves up and lift up Christ at the same time:
. . . there are more ways to preach ourselves than one might think. This word from James Denney has exerted a sobering effect on me since I first read it in 1982. He had these words framed and posted in the vestry of his Scottish church.
No man can bear witness to Christ and to himself at the same time. No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save. (Quoted in John Stott, Between Two Worlds, 325)