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Description: Ray Ortlund explains why he wants release from self-oriented philosophy rather than to embrace it in this One Minute Apologetics video.

Ray Ortlund explains why he wants release from self-oriented philosophy rather than to embrace it in this One Minute Apologetics video.

Well, it’s a very personal question, and you’re going to answer it for yourself. I’m going to answer it for myself. But here’s how I feel: Be true to myself? You got to be kidding.

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I’ve been trying God’s patience since 1949. I know myself well enough—not very deeply, really—to know that approach is deeply distasteful. I need release from myself.

I need a new self. I’m tired of this one. That’s why I’m grateful Jesus said, “You must be born again.”

Ray Ortlund (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary; MA, University of California, Berkeley; PhD, University of Aberdeen, Scotland) is president of Renewal Ministries and an Emeritus Council member of The Gospel Coalition. He founded Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and now serves from Immanuel as pastor to pastors. Ray has authored a number of books, including The Gospel: How The Church Portrays The Beauty of Christ, Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel, and with Sam Allberry, You’re Not Crazy: Gospel Sanity for Weary Churches. He and his wife, Jani, have four children.