Our Glory is His Further Glory
Some time ago I watched this video about how various characters in the Bible are "types" of Christ, like how Isaac being offered as a sacrifice was a picture of Christ dying on the cross for our sins. The point of the video was to demonstrate how Jesus is the better fulfillment. However, at the very end of the video he says something obscure, "The Bible isn't about you." I hear other phrases like this, "Life isn't about you" or "Christian, the Church doesn't exist for you." If the "Bible wasn't about us," then why should we read it? Where does it ever say that in the Bible? (I can find quite a bit of evidence to the contrary). These phrases have a nice way of sounding "spiritual," but the problem with these mantras, is that they perpetuate the enemy's lies of insignificance, false condemnation, self-hatred, and purposelessness -- which feeds the very attitudes Jesus has come to eradicate. Too much of the Ch...