The Litmus Test Of Our Love For

Sheer Scholarship Alone Cannot Reveal To Us The Gospel Of Grace. We Must Never Allow The Authority Of Books, Institutions, Or Leaders To Replace The Authority Of Knowing Jesus Christ Personally And Directly. When The Religious Views Of Others Interpose Between Us And The Primary Experience Of Jesus As The Christ, We Become Unconvicted And Unpersuasive Travel Agents Handing Out Brochures To Places We Have Never Visited.

The God Who Exacts The Last Drop Of Blood From His Son So That His Just Anger, Evoked By Sin, May Be Appeased, Is Not The God Revealed By And In Jesus Christ. And If He Is Not The God Of Jesus, He Does Not Exist.

Ruthless Trust Ultimately Comes Down To This: Faith In The Person Of Jesus And Hope In His Promise.

The Story Goes That A Public Sinner Was Excommunicated And Forbidden Entry To The Church. He Took His Woes To God. 'they Won't Let Me In, Lord, Because I Am A Sinner.' 'what Are You Complaining About?' Said God. 'they Won't Let Me In Either.

We Even Refuse To Be Our True Self With God- And Then Wonder Why We Lack Intimacy With Him.