Tag: Humble Orthodoxy

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Hey Christian: Don’t be a jerk!

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?)

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The Good Shepherd + Humble Orthodoxy

We’re currently on holidays on the South Island of New Zealand. We’ve seen more sheep than people. Below are some local sheep posing for the camera. While on the subject of sheep, I recently spoke on the Youthworks YMC – Some to be Shepherds. I gave the opening and closing talks. The first one was on John 10 – I think it was a good place to kick off the conference reflecting on Jesus the Good Shepherd. The final talk was on Humble Orthodoxy – which is all about speaking the truth without being a jerk.

Here are the mp3s for both talks:

To get all 6 talks on Video, contact Youthworks (they have a swanky new website!!).

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Think Hard, Stay Humble: The Life of the Mind and the Peril of Pride

I had a mild case of preacher crush watching this sermon the other night. It’s Francis Chan from the Desiring God National Conference 2010. Some really really good stuff. His main text is 1 Corinthians 8:1-3. We need to be those who don’t just think hard about the scriptures, but also think hard about loving people. Chan’s passion for people and particularly for lost people is a rebuke and challenge to me.

Rather than plagiarising some of the content, I might just play it on the big screen at a conference I’m speaking at this week!

If you can’t see the vid above – click here to watch/download.

EDIT: Here is what I came up with my message “Humble Orthodoxy”

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The most humbling, human-pride smashing message in the world

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

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What we know about God shapes the way we think and live

[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)