The narrow path
This week's verses are Matthew 7:13-14 : “Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it! Jesus is talking here to believers who want to know if they're on the right track. They are expecting to hear that if they do the usual good things, like giving to charity, being polite, not committing any heinous crimes, and so on, that they should be fine. They want to hear "just keep doing what you're doing." And that's what many churches preach. And we should keep doing what we're doing, if what we're doing is good. But what Jesus says is that the path to escape destruction is not the one everyone else is on. Along with the superficial goodness of the wide path is a lot of unnoticed depravity. We don't notice because we have nobody from the narrow path to compa...