What did Martin Luther mean when he wrote that Christians live in Christ through faith and in the neighbor through love?

And what's the difference between self-improvement and self-transcendence?

Find out in the Issues, Et cetera, Book of the Month for June,

Lift Your Eyes, How to Live Outside Yourself.

Learn more and purchase, Lift Your Eyes at Issuesetc.org or by calling Concordia Publishinghouse, 1-800-32530-40.

Lift your eyes, How to Live Outside Yourself, The Issues, Et cetera, you will find it in textbooks.

You will find it in the social sciences, in our politics everywhere, expressive individualism,

the notion that if you look inside yourself,

you will find all the answers. It emphasizes personal authenticity and self-expression.

But in the end, expressive individualism says, I decide who I am and what I do.

And it is decided by looking inside, the ultimate authority.

Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about expressive individualism

and the Christian life, Pastor Joshua Pfeiffer. He's a married father of four children, pastor of the

Tarrington Lutheran parish in the South Eastern State of Victoria in Australia. children, pastor of the Tarrington Lutheran Parish in the

southeastern state of Victoria in Australia.

He's author of The Issues, Etc-a, a book of the month for June.

Lift Your Eyes, How to Live Outside Yourself.

Joshua, welcome.

Thank you very much.

It's great to be here.

Why do you suggest that lifting your eyes is a helpful way to think about our

Christian life in today's world? Yeah, so there's a lot in the Bible about what we do with our

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