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The pub we were sitting in one evening was quiet enough to hear other people talking, and I heard my young friend at the other end of the long table telling a distinguished Swedish Lutheran theologian, who had been teaching Luther nearly as long as my friend had been alive, what Martin Luther actually meant.
It was kind of sweet, an earnest and gifted young man who loved his subject so much that he forgot the status of the man to whom he was speaking. The theologian answered him with perfect seriousness, as if he were arguing with another distinguished theologian in the faculty common room.
But still, my friend would have gained something if he had deferred more to the theologian, if he had said less, listened more and asked questions of someone who could answer them.
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It was kind of sweet, an earnest and gifted young man who loved his subject so much that he forgot the status of the man to whom he was speaking. The theologian answered him with perfect seriousness, as if he were arguing with another distinguished theologian in the faculty common room.
But still, my friend would have gained something if he had deferred more to the theologian, if he had said less, listened more and asked questions of someone who could answer them.
Caught up in comfort
Continued below.
As disciples, sometimes we need to just shut up and listen
Humility means listening to wisdom, to God’s judgment and to the Master who calls us not just friends, but disciples.
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