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I’m excited to be spending the weekend with the SOULIES Youth Leaders. Good vibe so far. We’re hoping to have a good mix of business and pleasure. The main teaching content will be on ‘Humble Orthodoxy‘. We’ll reflect on some of Josh Harris’ writing and 2 Timothy. Not sure on what ‘Humble Orthodoxy’ is? Check out this comic that Josh shared on his blog:

That pretty much sums it up!!

I’ve written on Humble Orthodoxy a bunch of times. Click here to read a bit more.

It’s a message I need to keep hearing, and I’m guessing it’s probably a message many of my readers need to keep hearing too!

Josh also posted a recent sermon on Humble Orthodoxy. I might try and listen this weekend…

Familiar with Humble Orthodoxy? How do you try and cultivate it in your life? (ie What do you do to guard yourself form being a Christian Jerk?)

Josh Harris has posted an excerpt from his book Dug Down Deep: Unearthing What I Believe and Why It Matters on Humble Orthodoxy (read my previous posts on this subject). In the post he speaks warmly of the way his friend Justin Taylor has embraced humble orthodoxy. If you haven’t heard of humble orthodoxy, it basically means – don’t be an arrogant Christian jerk. I need to hear this, maybe you do too…

Here’s a snippet:

Genuine orthodoxy–the heart of which is the death of God’s son for undeserving sinners–is the most humbling, human-pride smashing message in the world. And if we truly know the gospel of grace it will create in us a heart of humility and grace toward others. Francis Schaeffer, a Christian writer and thinker from the 20th century, modeled this kind of profound compassion. He genuinely loved people. And even as he analyzed and critiqued the culture he did so “with a tear in his eye.”

That is humble orthodoxy. It’s standing for truth with a tear in your eye. Telling your friend living in sexual sin that you love them even as you tell them their sexual preference is disobedient to God. It’s remembering that angry, unkind, opponents of the gospel are human beings created in the image of God who need the same mercy God has shown you.

Read the rest here

[This is the 4th video from the last 5 posts. Back to original content tomorrow!] Josh Harris has recently released a new book, Dug Deep Down. I look forward to reading it! He held a short film contest to coincide with the book launch. Here is the winner:

See the rest of the videos here. I noticed in one of them the concept of ‘Humble Orthodoxy’. I’ve posted on Humble Orthodoxy before. I’ll be doing a series of talks on a similar topic later in the year, so you’ll be sure to hear more about it on this blog.

Peaceout.

(h/t Josh Harris)

While watching the New Attitude 2008 Conference video (see it below – it’s a good vid), I was reminded of Humble Orthodoxy. I’ve posted on it before.

Josh Harris preaches a message I need to keep hearing. Now that I’m hanging out with Anglicans more, it’s a message that they need to hear too! There are Reformed Evangelical Christians who are so dogmatic about the truth, that they fail to love. Arrogant Orthodoxy is ugly. Humble orthodoxy is “a commitment to believe, live, and represent biblical truth with humility.”

If you are a pastor or pastor-in-training, whether you think you’re arrogant or not, please, for the Glory of Jesus, listen to this word and embrace Humble Orthodoxy.

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