The Greatest Myth of Christian Growth Ever!
It’s everywhere, this myth. Exalted by all stripes of Christians and lifted up by all theological traditions (save, perhaps, one), this ubiquitous nostrum has played as big a role as anything else is hamstringing integrative growth in faith. It’s as prevalent in the wider world as it is in the church. That, BTW, ought to be a red flag to us that something is askew. But even the wider world is waking up to the deleterious consequences of this myth. One business writer says of this myth, it “. . . is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream, a vain artifice that offers mostly rhetorical solutions . . . (It) . . . isn't just a losing proposition; it's a hurtful, destructive one.” [1] So, what is this pernicious myth, this faith-neutering idea so widely lauded and longed for? It’s balance. Yes, that’s right – balance. ...