By Timothy Keller (summary by Jeffrey Bush)
- The ego often hurts because it is drawing attention to itself.
- We say our feelings are hurt, but our feelings cannot be hurt, it is our ego that is hurt.
- Your identity and self-worth is not in what others think of you but rather what the
Lord says about you. - In 1 Timothy 1:15, Paul said he was chief amongst sinners. Not that he used to be,
but that he was. We are not used to someone with such confidence, as Paul, saying
they are unworthy. His ego was not drawing attention to himself, he is not paying
attention to himself anymore. - Gospel humility is not thinking more of yourself, or less of yourself, it is thinking of
yourself less. - A true gospel person is not a self loving person or a self hating person, rather a
gospel humble person. And a true gospel humble person is a self forgetting person.