Jesus Famous With Nate Holdridge

“But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3 NKJV). You used to like email: no more postage! Immediate communication! Every time-saving technology we introduce, however, ends up demanding more time than we ever dreamed. Humankind is good at many things. One of them is adding complexity to nearly everything. This can be good in many areas: we've got mouths to feed, after all. But one major area to war against complexity is our relationship with Jesus Christ. Paul worried about the Corinthian church. He had shared the gospel in their city for a couple of years. He wanted to present them to Jesus like a bride ready for her groom. He feared, though, that the serpent who deceived Eve would also deceive them. He hated the idea of their minds being corrupted "from the simplicity that is in Christ." From simplicity to complexity, that is the poisonous trend. The Corinthian church went there. A