“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”
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“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.”
― One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
― One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.”
― Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free
― Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free
“The gospel doesn’t make bad people good; it makes dead people alive. That’s the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion.”
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
― Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
“Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.”
― Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free
― Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free
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