DTS Chapel

Perspective Is More Important than Performance

with J. Lanier Burns on May 21, 2008

Dr. Burns, senior professor of Systematic Theology, explains that one's biblically-shaped perspective is more important that performance. He encourages us to serve and trust God so that we can "walk by faith, not by sight."

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