Human beings always look to something to give them identity, meaning, and purpose, and an inner sense of well-being. We were created to get these things vertically, in relationship to and in worship of God. For Tripp then, the value of worship is in the benefits that accrue from it; worship is carried out for the benefit that it supposedly gives the worshipper.
He presents God as available for what He can give, and advises man to worship for what he can get. For Tripp, God is not the end in Himself, but a means to achieve the end desired by the so-called worshipper. And how is the return on those investments shaping my marriage? No, the hope of your marriage can be captured in… grace. Rome fuses justification with sanctification; Tripp does essentially the same thing using the terminology of the self-help therapist.
Both try to change the condition of mankind via the accomplishment of charitable loving works. By his grace you really can. Genesis When still a Roman Catholic monk, Martin Luther would have agreed with Tripp, whipping himself in his monastery cell and with bloody knees from climbing the Sancta Scala Sacred Steps in Rome.
Luther came to see that his acts of love toward God were performed for the benefits that might accrue to him Eros. They deny faith and strive by their own works to make themselves blessed and seize heaven by force. For [love] is the work of the Divine majesty alone, not of any creature either angelic or human.
Self-love is not to be ennobled and refined, but totally annihilated. I Corinthians Main What Did You Expect? ISBN Your tags:. Send-to-Kindle or Email Please login to your account first Need help? Please read our short guide how to send a book to Kindle. The file will be sent to your email address. It may take up to minutes before you receive it. The file will be sent to your Kindle account. Realism is found at the junction of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.
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Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed—and now, so has the new-baby bible.
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