Analogy

You Are Not the Center

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.

  • Humility
  • Idolatry
  • Grace

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