From the time of the Fall to the present day, men and women have frequently succumbed to the deceptive devices of the devil. Christians are especially open to the king of cunning deceit that combines the language of faith and religion with the content of self-interest and flattery. We like to be told how special we are, how wise, how blessed, especially if as a consequence others are greatly diminished. We like to have our Christianity shaped less by the cross than by triumphalism or rules or charismatic leadership or subjective experience. And if this shaping can be coated with assurances of orthodoxy, complete with the cliche, we may not detect the presence of the archdeceiver, nor see that we are being weaned away from the “sincere and pure devotion to Christ” to a “different gospel.”
D.A. Carson, A Model of Christian Maturity: An Exposition of 2 Corinthians 10-13, p.96-97
Jesus alone.
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