Something that distinctly jumped out to me during the reading was Augustine's questions about why his readers would want to hear his confessions in the first place. He writes that people are "inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own" (180). This is so unbelievingly true in our lives today and convicts my heart. We are always so interested in why people come out to be the way they are but never divulge into why we are the way that we are. So, Augustine is wondering why he should even try to explain his life when won't. But, he explains that it is not for the people's sake that he tells his story. Instead, it always goes back to God. He wants his story to impact unbelievers. And I believe that is what we should be doing today. We are not called to only preach and teach to people that are already believers. We need to preach to those that don't believe so that they will believe.
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