Kristen

“Our rules become our substitute savior, and keeping those rules becomes our self-salvation project, with Jesus safely out- side the picture. With enough rules and regulations set up, we don’t need Jesus. After all, Jesus scares us—he’s so unpredict- able, so uncontrollable, Jesus operating system—unconditional grace—is wild. It’s unmanageable, uncontainable. It unsettles everything by wrestling control out of our hands, thereby putting us at the mercy of God. So we spend our lives trying to manufacture an existence that we can control.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus + Nothing = Everything