How do you teach the law of God in a culture that recognizes no authority outside the self? That’s the challenge for Christians in the West today, whether we’re talking about Jesus with friends in a college cafeteria or preaching in a megachurch.
Theologian Michael Horton observes that when many people hear a speaker criticize them, they simply walk out. What does that mean, then, for trying to teach the law in order to convict people of their sin? How will they realize their need for a Savior? Repentance, responds Tim Keller, TGC vice president and author of Center Church, feels to many today like death.
But what happens when the weight of finding your own meaning and fulfillment becomes unbearable? When you don’t succeed and assume all the blame? When nothing is ever enough to satisfy you? That’s the subject of this video with Horton, Keller, and missiologist Alan Hirsch. For more, pick up Keller’s book Shaped by the Gospel (Zondervan, 2016), featuring contributions from Horton and Dane Ortlund.
Free eBook by Tim Keller: ‘The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness’
Imagine a life where you don’t feel inadequate, easily offended, desperate to prove yourself, or endlessly preoccupied with how you look to others. Imagine relishing, not resenting, the success of others. Living this way isn’t far-fetched. It’s actually guaranteed to believers, as they learn to receive God’s approval, rather than striving to earn it.
In Tim Keller’s short ebook, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path To True Christian Joy, he explains how to overcome the toxic tendencies of our age一not by diluting biblical truth or denying our differences一but by rooting our identity in Christ.
TGC is offering this Keller resource for free, so you can discover the “blessed rest” that only self-forgetfulness brings.
