Are You Easily Edified?
Justin Taylor links to a video with Chip Stam, professor of church music and worship at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in which Stam quotes Harold Best as saying, “A mature Christian is easily edified.”
That is one of the more profound statements that I have read recently, one which I will be thinking about for a while. Maturity is not being cynical, jaded, or judgmental. It is a growing tenderness to divine truth, however it is delivered.
Taylor writes, “But wouldn’t it be great if those who knew us best could honestly say, ‘It is so easy to edify him. It doesn’t take much. It doesn’t need to be the best sermon ever preached or the most excellent song ever composed or the most powerful book ever written or the most theologically eloquent statement ever uttered. Just the simplest truth was enough to refresh his heart in Christ.’”
Lord, make it so.
