Narrow, Not Pinched

Sharing Options

“The truth is narrow, but the truth is never sectarian, or to be thought of as the cheat codes for a mystery religion . . . The way is narrow, Jesus taught, but that narrow pass opens out into a glorious mountain valley, lush and green, and teeming with game. We do not embrace that which is pinched and narrow for the sake of narrowness; narrowness is not an end in itself. Narrow is the way, Jesus said, that leads to life (Matt. 7:14). He did not say that the narrow way led to being locked up in a divine broom closet. The narrow way opens out into the wide expanse of life” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 6-7).