“The great mistake made by people is hoping to discover in
themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.”
“To reach people in our day, the gospel will have to be
distinguished from moralism, because moralism is what most people outside the
church think Christianity is all about – rules and standards and behavior and
cleaning yourself up.”
“The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human
heart.”
“Outside cleanup never leads to inside cleanup. Only inside cleanup leads to outside
cleanup, and there’s only One who can do that.”
“The gospel announces that everyone ‘in Christ’ is already
accepted by God because of Jesus’s work for them. Therefore, no improvement, good behavior, or performance is
necessary in order to experience the deep acceptance we long for and in fact
strive for on a daily basis.”
“My identity, worth, and value have nothing to do with my
strength or ability to win. It has
everything to do with the finished work of Jesus for me.”
“Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.”
“The banner under which the Christian lives reads, ‘It is
finished.’”
“We were dead in our trespasses. The next move had to be God’s. And in love, He made it.”
“Because Jesus has already earned God’s full approval and
affection and acceptance for us, we no longer require that from anyone else.”
“The hard work of Christian growth, therefore, is to think
less of ourselves and our performance and more of Jesus and his performance for
us.”
“Christian growth doesn’t happen by first behaving better,
but by believing better.”
“My standing with God isn’t based on their obedience for
Jesus but on Jesus’s obedience for me.”
“The only thing you contribute to your salvation and to your
sanctification is the sin that makes them necessary.”
“Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in
Christ we have died and in Christ we have been raised. Life change happens as the heart daily
grasps death and life. Daily reformation
is the fruit of daily resurrection.
To get it the other way around is to miss the power and point of the
gospel.”
“To focus on how I’m doing, more than on what Christ has
done, is Christian narcissism – the poison of self-absorption which undermines
the power of the gospel in our lives.”
“If you uproot the idol, and fail to plant the love of
Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.”
“The gospel liberates us to be okay with not being okay.”
“True spirituality takes us away from ourselves and into the
messy lives of other people.”
“Real spiritual growth happens as we look up to Christ and
what he did, out to our neighbors and what they need, not in to ourselves and
how we’re doing.”
“God created you for beauty – and redeemed you for beauty –
so that you and your joy and peace and gratitude for what he’s done for you in
Christ would be put on display in a dark, watching world.”
“If you’re a Christian, your identity is firmly anchored in
Christ’s accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance,
not yours; his victory, not yours.
Your identity is steadfastly established in his substitution, not in
your sin.”
“The level of passion with which God loves you is not
determined by the level of passion with which you love Him.”
“Christianity is the only faith system where God both makes
the demands and meets them.”
“Our performance doesn’t lead to our rescue, our rescue
leads to our performance.”
“We spend too much time asking ‘What would Jesus do?’ and
not enough on ‘What did Jesus do?’”
“When the gospel reorients how you feel and live, all of
life becomes about the work Jesus accomplished for us, not what we can
accomplish for him.”
“Guilt doesn’t produce holiness; grace does.”
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