Sobriety Test
by Donald T. Williams
Whenever I am tempted to think that my sanctification is progressing rather well (I hope and trust it is progressing; how well is not for me to say), I ask myself the following questions:
Do I yet obey Jesus the way he deserves to be obeyed?
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Donald T. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College. He stays permanently camped out on the borders between serious scholarship and pastoral ministry, between theology and literature, and between Narnia and Middle-Earth. He is the author of fourteen books, including Answers from Aslan: The Enduring Apologetics of C. S. Lewis (DeWard, 2023). He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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