I know I said I would be offline until later this winter, but I couldn't resist posting this. Besides taking ordination exams, preparing to lead a book discussion group with an apologetics focus, preparing a Sunday School lesson, and preparing a sermon for Sunday evening January 11, I am currently preparing what will be a 50 page booklet of teaching helps for the volunteers who will be leading our students' Spring semester D-groups (i.e. Discipleship groups) (By the way, I'm not complaining. I absolutely love it! This is an aspect of the wonderful work I have been called to do.). The book I have chosen as the basis for the D-group lessons is The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction by Sinclair Ferguson. In chapter six "Born Again" (p. 59) Ferguson writes this gem:
Regeneration creates new desires to worship God, know his truth, meet his people, serve his kingdom and love and honour his Son. These aspirations are not perfect. They ebb and flow. At times we lament their weakness. But however short we confess ourselves to have fallen from what we ought to be, we are not what we once were.
