Dear Clint, the Theologian,

Allowing an adherence to sound doctrine to stroke your ego is, in many ways, a far greater threat to your soul than blatant ignorance of it. A person who accepts the sovereignty of God, the completeness of the atonement, and the inability of human will, should recognize that God has made him the humble slave of those who don’t recognize truth. A tendency towards self-superiority marks how much you don’t actually intimately know Jesus.  Receptiveness to truth is just as much a work of grace as the understanding of it. Grace is the foundation of every blessing. Given that, being a “studious theologian” makes you the least of all. God has decided that you, being spiritually bankrupt, need more truth than most to survive in this world and the next.  You cannot be independent. You are a weak beggar. You are a servant of servants—expect to be treated like one….and, better yet, act like one!