Why I love Matt Chandler. (From a message this morning to Southern Seminary.)

“My plea to young ministers, over and over and over again, is a plea for holiness! To be holy men of God! If we had time I’d love to take you over to 1st John 1 where he says there are two ways to deal with sin. One is to make confession and repentance a continual ethic, and the other is for you to be a liar!

To pretend that you are holier than you are, to pretend that you are godlier than you are, to buy into the pressure to wear a cape and let it flutter in front of your people, instead of continually confessing and repenting of the wickedness that is in your heart right now and if you are not aware of it then you have not done the hard work of letting scripture read your soul, you have not done a good job of slowing things down, breathing, and coming face to face with your own depravity.

What happens to pastors is that they spend their time, so much of their time, with immature believers that they begin to see themselves as some sort of spiritual superman. This is a problem. This is a problem.”

I need to sit on this and ponder for awhile. And then deal with myself.