Jesus models for us a willingness to listen, learn and grow rather than a domineering certainty that insists on knowing who’s right and who’s wrong.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Colossians
If we delight in shaming and punishing wrongdoers, we will not recognise the scandalous love and mercy revealed in Jesus, but instead find ourselves being harshly judged by an outraged condemning god who we have created in our own image.
We grow into the likeness of Christ as we model ourselves on him, and he is a model of growth rather than a model of static perfection.