More buts

Most of us want to escape our circumstances, because we don't know how to operate the but. If we don't know inner life, we want to escape. But if we know the inner life, we understand that the Christian life is us living in the same situations that everyone else lives in, but we live differently. — The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, page 187

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Did you see him do it? He used the "but": we live "in the same situations that everyone else lives in, but we live differently." We live after the "but"; we live by Christ in us.
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