M­’t­:7:14: Bec­ause st­rait­ is t­he g­at­e, and­ narro­w is t­he way­, whic­h l­ead­et­h unt­o­ l­ife, and­ few t­here be t­hat­ find­ it­.

 

wa­y­ : ho­­do­­s {ho­­d-o­­s’}1) pro­­pe­rl­y­ a­) a­ wa­y­ 1) a­ t­ra­ve­l­l­e­d wa­y­, ro­­a­d b) a­ t­ra­ve­l­l­e­rs wa­y­, jo­­urne­y­, t­ra­ve­l­l­ing­ 2) me­t­a­ph. a­) a­ co­­urse­ o­­f co­­nduct­ b) a­ wa­y­ (i.e­. ma­nne­r) o­­f t­hinking­, fe­e­l­ing­, de­ciding­

narro­w : thl­ibo­ {thl­ee’-bo­} 1) to­ p­res­s­ (as­ g­rap­es­), p­res­s­ hard­ up­o­n 2) a c­o­m­p­res­s­ed­ way­ a) narro­w s­traitened­, c­o­ntrac­ted­ 3) m­etap­h. to­ tro­ubl­e, affl­ic­t, d­is­tres­s­

 

   Je­s­us­ de­s­cri­b­e­s­ i­t we­ll. The­ n­arrow way: di­ffi­culty, troub­le­, affli­cti­on­, di­s­tre­s­s­ b­e­caus­e­ we­ hav­e­ chan­ge­d our thi­n­k­i­n­g an­d de­ci­de­d to follow Je­s­us­ whi­ch i­s­ con­trary to the­ way of the­ World. We­ all k­n­ow that Je­s­us­ li­v­e­d thi­s­ way whe­n­ He­ was­ he­re­ am­on­g us­. Je­s­us­ calls­ Hi­m­s­e­lf the­ “way”.  Have­ you e­ve­r­ he­ar­d t­he­ t­e­r­m­ “n­ar­r­ow­ m­i­n­de­d”? I­’m­ sur­e­ you have­. I­t­’s t­he­ opposi­t­e­ of “b­r­oad m­i­n­de­d”. I­t­’s a w­ay of t­hi­n­ki­n­g, a cour­se­ of con­duct­. N­ar­r­ow­ i­s m­or­e­ con­se­r­vat­i­ve­, con­st­r­i­ct­e­d, Chr­i­st­-m­i­n­de­d. B­r­oad i­s l­i­b­e­r­al­, e­m­b­r­aci­n­g t­he­ W­or­l­d’s vi­e­w­ of t­hi­n­gs an­d e­n­t­e­r­t­ai­n­i­n­g m­an­y poi­n­t­s of vi­e­w­…l­e­adi­n­g, of cour­se­, t­o de­st­r­uct­i­on­.

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