The Simple Life

The men at our church are studying a book called Living Wisely with the Church Fathers by Christopher Hall. It’s part four in a lovely series on the life and thought of ancient Christians and how their insights can help us live as faithful Christians today.

The Church Fathers (men like Augustine, Origen, and Chrysostom) focused on cultivating a beautiful blend of spiritual prosperity and earthly simplicity. Training in godliness through the word, prayer, and fellowship with godly saints results, according to the Fathers, in a humble life, a simple life, in a word, the good life.

In the face of rampant materialism, self-worship, and obsession with earthly accolades, let us live wisely by living humble, simple, spiritually-cultivated lives, lives which are seasoned with grace, with contentment, and with the equi-readiness (I think I just made up a word) to suffer terrible trial, enjoy blessed prosperity, and do everything in between, all unto our amazing God, through Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit.