NEW
BELIEVER; CHRISTIANS: IN THE WORLD

The new Christian is like a man who has learned to drive a car in a country where the traffic moves on the left side of the highway and suddenly finds himself in another country and forced to drive on the right. He must unlearn his old habit and learn a new one and, more serious than all, he must learn in heavy traffic. He must fight his old acquired reflexes and learn new ones, and he has no time or place to practice. He can learn only by driving and the Christian can learn only by living. There is no school of Christianity where the Christian can make his mistakes safely before going out where a mistake will cost him something. The Christian can never afford to be wrong, not even once, though by the good grace of God he can be forgiven if he sins and restored again to fellowship if he does fail his Lord.…

Among other things, the Bible is a record of the struggle of twice-born men to live in a world run by the once-born.

Romans 7:15–25; Galatians 5:17; 1 John 1:6–9

Of God and Men, 68, 69.