Kindling

Quote

Find Its Master

Peter T. Forsythe (via Warren Wiersbe)

Peter T. Forsythe said, “The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.” The line runs against the grain of a culture that treats autonomy as the highest good. In the gospel, true freedom is found on the far side of belonging to Christ—not before it.

How you’d preach it

Reframes the starting point of the Christian life. Freedom is not the first duty.

  • Obedience
  • Identity
  • Discipleship

Wiersbe · Forsythe

Back to the Shelf

Nearby

Quote

There is a line often used in preaching: “In the matter of truth there is no neutral ground. You are either for it or against it.…

Truth · Discipleship · Obedience

Quote

Eugene Peterson borrowed a phrase from Nietzsche to describe the Christian life as “a long obedience in the same direction.” The…

Perseverance · Discipleship · Obedience

Peterson

Quote

William Booth said that “faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of a person…

Faith · Obedience · Discipleship

Booth

Quote

Richard Foster puts it starkly: “in some ways we would prefer to hear Jesus’ call to the soft things rather than the hard.” Whitney…

Discipleship · Rest · Obedience

Foster · Whitney