Chapter 2: The Fear of the Lord

Prov. 1:7 Wisdom is living your life in congruence with the will of God by walking in grace with him. Wisdom begins with fearing God. God is to be considered most heavily! Unless God stands heavily in the center of one's life, he is an undisciplined fool. God in his perfect holiness and infinite power must be revered. God has fierce indignation against those who involve themselves in sexual immorality. He has caused death to many and pain to others.(1 Cor. 10:8)

That which opposes God is worldliness which is exemplified by the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions.(1 Jn. 2:15-17) Furthermore, those who seek to keep on sinning are not Christians. (1 Cor. 6:9-10, Jn. 3:9) Obviously, no Christian is perfect, yet he does not seek to make a practice of sinning. In fact, the Christian puts sin to death thanks to the empowering dynamic of the Holy Spirit.(1 Cor.5:9-11)

"The cold hard truth is that most guys' struggles are only known by their fellow Christian buddies and unless Christian dudes man up and stop arguing about stupid secondary theological issues and spend their energies holding one another accountable to get dominion over their underwear, then Christian friendship is nothing more than Christian fakery."