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Proverbs 26:4: "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him."

John Piper, Desiring God: "The difference between Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ is that Uncle Sam won't enlist you in his service unless you are healthy and Jesus won't enlist you unless you are sick....Christianity is fundamentally convalescence. ('Pray without ceasing' = Keep buzzing the nurse.)....Patients do not serve their physicians. They trust them for good prescriptions. The Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments are the Doctor's prescribed health regimen, not the employee's job description....beware of serving in a way that implies a deficiency on His part or exalts our indispensability" (171-172).