“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
우리 안에 잔존하는 죄 "아무리 성화 되어도, 이 땅을 살아가는 그리스도인 안에는 잔존하는 죄가 있습니다. 그 죄는 예수 그리스도를 추구하는 경건한 삶의 몸부림 속에서 수많은 죄 죽임의 칼날을 피하고 살아남은 교묘한 죄입니다. 그 죄는 우리가 잠시만 믿음의 경주를 게을리하면, 그 무너진 경계의 틈 사이로 교묘하게 비집고 들어와 세력을 확장합니다. 그래서 우리를 조금씩 죄의 지배의 상태로 데려가, 첫 회심과 함께 열렸던 놀라운 은혜의 샘들을 모두 막아버립니다." (김남준, "은혜에서 미끄러질 때")