Years ago, I saw a picture colored by a small kid sitting in a church service. Looming over the whole page was a big-headed man on a big platform behind a big pulpit holding a big Bible, with a prominent scowl and dark, frowny eyebrows. I don’t know the artistic intent, but this Crayola preacher came across as elevated, inaccessible, and generally disappointed in everybody. And I wondered, given his pastoral portrait, how would this little boy draw God?
Let me ask you. When you think about God, what images come to mind? What picture would you draw? No, not facts, not a list of His attributes. What is His very essence, His core vibe, His heart? When you read His Word, enjoy His world, pray, sing, attend church—what comes across to you?
The content of Dane Ortlund’s Gentle and Lowly is wholly focused on this one question: what is the heart of Christ? Because, “it is one thing to know the doctrines of the incarnation and the atonement and a hundred other vital doctrines. It is another, more searching matter to know [Christ’s] heart for you.” (16)
A book for sinners and sufferers
From beginning to end, this book
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