"Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long." -- Rascal Flatts
I use the metaphor that the wide gate and the easy way are like an eight-lane superhighway with numerous easy-on, easy-off ramps while the narrow way is like a goat track up a mountain side from which you deviate at your peril.
Few there be that find it because there be few who want to pay the price, exercise the discipline, and forgo the intoxicating pleasure of the sights, sounds, and smells of the world. Add in the human nature of going along with the crowd and it is not difficult to see why most people simply engage "cruise control" and go along for the ride.
All very good. Jesus words tell us that few enter the way. That tells us that polls asking people what religion they are highly inaccurate. Even today in the US, something like 60% say they are Christian. But 60% of a society is not narrow or few. It is wide and many. We must look at specific beliefs and actions. You will know us by our fruit.
If anyone is a philologist, I really like the word used for "narrow". It is the word stenos in Greek. It is where we get the word stenographer for someone who writes in shorthand, in a reduced way. It is also a word used in medical diagnosis. I have spinal stenosis in two facet joints. Stenosis is the describes that spinal column has been narrowed to the point that it causes nerve pain in the back.
All very good. Jesus words tell us that few enter the way. That tells us that polls asking people what religion they are highly inaccurate. Even today in the US, something like 60% say they are Christian. But 60% of a society is not narrow or few. It is wide and many. We must look at specific beliefs and actions. You will know us by our fruit.
If anyone is a philologist, I really like the word used for "narrow". It is the word stenos in Greek. It is where we get the word stenographer for someone who writes in shorthand, in a reduced way. It is also a word used in medical diagnosis. I have spinal stenosis in two facet joints. Stenosis is the describes that spinal column has been narrowed to the point that it causes nerve pain in the back.
"Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long." -- Rascal Flatts
I use the metaphor that the wide gate and the easy way are like an eight-lane superhighway with numerous easy-on, easy-off ramps while the narrow way is like a goat track up a mountain side from which you deviate at your peril.
Few there be that find it because there be few who want to pay the price, exercise the discipline, and forgo the intoxicating pleasure of the sights, sounds, and smells of the world. Add in the human nature of going along with the crowd and it is not difficult to see why most people simply engage "cruise control" and go along for the ride.
All very good. Jesus words tell us that few enter the way. That tells us that polls asking people what religion they are highly inaccurate. Even today in the US, something like 60% say they are Christian. But 60% of a society is not narrow or few. It is wide and many. We must look at specific beliefs and actions. You will know us by our fruit.
If anyone is a philologist, I really like the word used for "narrow". It is the word stenos in Greek. It is where we get the word stenographer for someone who writes in shorthand, in a reduced way. It is also a word used in medical diagnosis. I have spinal stenosis in two facet joints. Stenosis is the describes that spinal column has been narrowed to the point that it causes nerve pain in the back.
https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/
https://libertarianchristians.com/author/rhesabrowning/
All very good. Jesus words tell us that few enter the way. That tells us that polls asking people what religion they are highly inaccurate. Even today in the US, something like 60% say they are Christian. But 60% of a society is not narrow or few. It is wide and many. We must look at specific beliefs and actions. You will know us by our fruit.
If anyone is a philologist, I really like the word used for "narrow". It is the word stenos in Greek. It is where we get the word stenographer for someone who writes in shorthand, in a reduced way. It is also a word used in medical diagnosis. I have spinal stenosis in two facet joints. Stenosis is the describes that spinal column has been narrowed to the point that it causes nerve pain in the back.
https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/
https://libertarianchristians.com/author/rhesabrowning/
Well said
Amen !