Every doctrine, every practice, every ethical demand eventually has to be related to Jesus Christ or it becomes something less than…
Grace
Analogy
traditional Christian anthropology
Much misery comes from treating the self as the fixed center around which everything else must arrange itself. The gospel relocates the center. We are loved, known, and significant—and we are not God. Freedom begins when the self is dethroned without being despised.
How you’d preach it
The self is real and valued. It is not the center of the universe.