The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

by Jared C. Wilson

I was preoccupied with and perversely interested in pale imitations of glory. I was committing clear sins in engaging in this behavior. And staying away from the porn shop would have been a good decision to make. But it was the allure inside of me—the desire for the glory that was being falsely promised—that just avoiding pornography wouldn’t kill. I didn’t simply have a behavior problem but a belief problem, a worship problem. And what eventually served to cure my taste for this shiny death was not “getting my act together” but finally, truly seeing the glory of my crucified Savior. In the warp and woof of this struggle every day, we cannot rely on the law to empower its own implications. We need the more glorious vision.