
The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
Messages by Desiring God
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Clarification of Christian Humility
Christian humility vanishes if you look directly at it and assess whether it is good or not, adequate or not. The typical, most common new testament word for humility, tapena frosune, is used in colossians by the false teachers to mean asceticism and harshness to the body. So before i can give a talk on the uncommon virtue of humility, i have to ask, according to whose usage and in what context? Now im goingto answer that in just a moment, but before i do, here's another clarification about words. Words are dumb things, but you're not dumb. You open your mouth and you use it in a context and bring content with
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