Like many obviously correct religious phrases, the soothing and very centered one about being gospel-centered, or Christ-centered, or Bible-centered is obviously correct. But it only soothing because we have not yet connected it to anything that we (or others) might actually care about. And what is more, we don’t need to connect it to anything because it is so obviously beyond criticism. It stands alone, and has a luminous aura, and only an sheer infidel would dare to question it. It is kind of like a Precious Moments figurine of the Infant Samuel at Prayer, and only someone with half-inch calluses on his heart would dare to wonder what would happen if it got dashed into the fireplace.
Okay, so we are gospel-centered already, but here’s the question: the center of what?
