Chasing Wisdom: Choosing Stability in a Rootless Age

by Daniel Grothe

God doesn’t judge the effectiveness of our lives using the metrics of the market economy, and God doesn’t assess the fruitfulness of our lives based on the quantity of people we are around but by the quality of our service to the people around us.

The Christian life is practiced in particular places with particular people. Saints are always made somewhere.

Too many Christians are accidental Gnostics. We have been trained to think that physical matter doesn’t matter, that all that truly matters is the “spiritual” stuff that happens in the invisible realm.

Jesus coming from Nazareth is a statement once and for all that there is no such place as nowhere. The God of eternity past moved into the “middle of nowhere” so that from then on, every place is a somewhere.