The Mortification of Sin
Hey you all! I am encouraged that you all are reading and musing over John Owen's The Mortification of Sin. When I was in the circle (as opposed to just the virtual circle), one of the dominant notes in the vision of chambers singers that Doc had set in place was an emphasis on holiness and a living to God in sanctificaiton. I love that vision! I don't know what your set vision is for this year and knowing Doc, he's proly introduced a newly modified vision for you all.
I just wanted to devote this particular post to being open to sharing what you're personally learning from the circle on Owen's book that some of us who are just in the virtual circle don't get to experience with you.
I don't know about you, but I wish I was there in the circle with you to listen to you take turns read and discuss and share and pray.
For me, when I read The Mortification of Sin, there has not been one moment when I walked away from it feeling like such a worm yet on the edges of dancing waters of God's free grace to me in Christ. There is really a sweet reciprocity that I experience in connection to the dreadfulness of my sin and infinite worth of God's grace that Owen communicates so well. To be honest, there have been moments when I couldn't read or finish reading a certain paragraph that just nailed my heart so deeply in conviction. Yet I find myself reading it again and again.
To find a book like The Mortification of Sin is rare in our age. The very fact that it is accessible and that it is being cherished by a new and fresh generation--our time--is exciting. It is an old shiny jewel of the Church that has been lost under layers and layers of our culture's self-help resources, therapy, entertainment--and, in most recent days, our culture's socio-political facades, self-autonomy, relativism, and stoical complacency.
It has taught me how dreadful legalism is and how disgusting antinomianism is in connection to mortificaiton. It has taught me how precious Christ must be to me in my need of Him. By the far, the chapter on Universal Holiness has its resonance throughout the bowels of my being everytime I think of it or read it.
What has Owen been teaching you all in the circle that you would like to post here?
Cherishing Christ,
Gabe--Romans 8:13
I just wanted to devote this particular post to being open to sharing what you're personally learning from the circle on Owen's book that some of us who are just in the virtual circle don't get to experience with you.
I don't know about you, but I wish I was there in the circle with you to listen to you take turns read and discuss and share and pray.
For me, when I read The Mortification of Sin, there has not been one moment when I walked away from it feeling like such a worm yet on the edges of dancing waters of God's free grace to me in Christ. There is really a sweet reciprocity that I experience in connection to the dreadfulness of my sin and infinite worth of God's grace that Owen communicates so well. To be honest, there have been moments when I couldn't read or finish reading a certain paragraph that just nailed my heart so deeply in conviction. Yet I find myself reading it again and again.
To find a book like The Mortification of Sin is rare in our age. The very fact that it is accessible and that it is being cherished by a new and fresh generation--our time--is exciting. It is an old shiny jewel of the Church that has been lost under layers and layers of our culture's self-help resources, therapy, entertainment--and, in most recent days, our culture's socio-political facades, self-autonomy, relativism, and stoical complacency.
It has taught me how dreadful legalism is and how disgusting antinomianism is in connection to mortificaiton. It has taught me how precious Christ must be to me in my need of Him. By the far, the chapter on Universal Holiness has its resonance throughout the bowels of my being everytime I think of it or read it.
What has Owen been teaching you all in the circle that you would like to post here?
Cherishing Christ,
Gabe--Romans 8:13
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