Today's episode of Ask Paul Tripp features two answers from the archives on seemingly unrelated topics,

but we hope that the gospel principles contained within both will be insightful and helpful to you.

Here's Paul answering a concern. Can followers of Christ practice yoga?

So I can't answer this question about Christians in yoga without

putting it in its theological context and that is the theology of God's common grace.

Every human being experiences God's grace every day because God loves us because

it's a God of tender faithful mercy he allows bad people to do good things

fallen people,

to make wise contributions,

so that life would be livable for us.

Let me give you one of the, one of the clearest examples of common grace

that we all experience,

that selfish people who don't love God have no reason to do anything else but love themselves generally are willing to obey traffic laws.

You know, if God would remove His grace,

the most dangerous thing you could ever do

is get in a car and drive.

But God restrains us.

God gives a surgeon who repudiates the Lord the ability to discover things in the

human body that bring healing to thousands and thousands of people. So I'm always going to be in this tension where I will need the wisdom of people. I will be

blessed by the wisdom of people who don't love God, who don't serve him, who don't know him, who in their lives

believe things that are not true. So it is with yoga. Yoga is two things. It's a errant philosophy

and it's something really healthy

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