It is not arrogance to know what the way of evil looks like in the world and to name it. It is deceptive, however, to name it everywhere other than in your own heart. Dallas helps to focus our attention: “The issue, so far as the gospel in the Gospels is concerned, is whether we are alive to God or dead to him. Do we walk in an interactive relationship with him that constitutes a new kind of life, life ‘from above’?”
