Espoused Theory

I was chatting with a friend about something that particularly stood out to me from tonight's sermon - about making sure we are worshiping God first, nothing and no-one else (that we don't have any other 'idols'). She reminded me that it's easy to say, but not so easy to do. She encouraged me that we need to keep submitting everything to God, and asking Him to help us in our weakness.

Made me think of espoused theories, and how it's easy to say we will do something, but what we actually end up doing (theory-in-use) often doesn't match up. But the great encouragement we can take as Christians is that God's Spirit can enable us to move from an espoused theory to a theory-in-action.