Alec Hill—The Importance of Dependence

Posted by Kendall Harmon

For most Americans, dependence is a very uncomfortable subject. Preferring to see ourselves as rugged individualists, we romanticize about characters such Ayn Rand’s main character, Howard Roark, in her novel Fountainhead. Reliant upon no one, he follows only his own inner sense of direction.

As disciples of Jesus, we pursue a very different path — not to autonomy but to obedience; not to ascension, but to surrender; not to seizing control but to yielding it. Indeed, the concepts of lordship and dependence are at the very core of Christian discipleship.

Read it all.

Filed under: * Culture-WatchReligion & Culture* International News & CommentaryAmerica/U.S.A.* TheologyPastoral Theology

0 Comments
Posted November 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
Registered members must log in to comment.




Next entry (above): PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Combating Hunger

Previous entry (below): (Veritas Forum) Why Tolerance is Not Enough—Myths about Pluralism

Return to blog homepage

Return to Mobile view (headlines)