Monday, March 21, 2011

There is always hope.

A great passage from a book I'm reading for class:

The gospel of Jesus is not, finally, about how we or anyone else behaves. Is it?

Nor is it about the "correctness" of our beliefs.

It isn't about our "little sins," or our "big sins," or how convincingly we repent when we sin.

The gospel of Jesus isn't about sin at all! Its about what our sin bought us, (sin's "wages" if you will): estrangement from God in our daily lives, and worst of all, estrangement from God in our inevitable deaths. The gospel is about what God alone can do. And God can do it all. In Christ, God has already done it. The gospel is about Hope, with a capitol H.


Crossing the Bar: Home By Another Way pg. 82
by James G. Johnson

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