What You Call Conviction Might Just Be Convenience

Out of Neutral | Grace Baptist Church · Nov 27, 2024 · 4m

What You Call Conviction Might Just Be Convenience Paul Sadler

I thought I had strong convictions. Maybe you do, too. What I learned was that many of my beliefs were borrowed from other people and hadn’t been tested, applied, or internalized. What I thought were convictions were loosely held ideas that wouldn’t hold up. I’ve come to recognize the cheaper substitutes to convictions that we often mistake for the real thing. As you consider them, reflect on your own beliefs and try to discern whether they’re truly rooted or just borrowed.

1. Things we don’t have strong reasons to deny

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