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Humility is not the Enemy of Discernment

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Michael Clary
Mar 26, 2024
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There's a simple reason why evangelicals lack discernment these days: we think its more humble to be naive.

Why do they think this? Because discernment requires making moral judgments, and we've been told it's self-righteous to do that. So we think we can avoid pride by being naive. But it doesn't work that way. Naïveté is just a different form of self-…

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