“Believers humbled for sin, are to be taken off all law-thoughts and fear of eternal condemnation, and all thoughts that sorrow [for sin] is a penance and satisfaction to offended justice.”
Samuel Rutherford
Grace does not say sin is no longer sin. Grace says sinners are freely forgiven of all their sin through faith alone in Christ alone and are empowered to repent of ongoing sin.
“Those who come aright to Christ must have noble, high, long, deep, and broad thoughts of Jesus, and know the gospel. You must hear a good report of Christ, before you come to Him. Bad thoughts of Christ keep many from Him.”
- Samuel Rutherford
"Where are sermons that from beginning to end are 'reasoning, explaining, and proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ'? Where are the sermons that... chase sinners out of every godless nook and cranny to fall on their knees before the cross of Christ?"
Conrad Mbewe
The church is not a mere voluntary, philanthropy organization with an optional religious message each week if you need it. It is God’s covenant community for which He paid for by His own blood, to whom He draws near, and for whom all of world history plays out.
“In a word, sacerdotalism teaches that God wills the salvation of men, but he leaves the working out of salvation, the chief work of dispensing the grace of salvation, to the earthly institution that is his Church. The Church becomes the only dispensary of grace.”
"That means there is nothing more wise than obsessing over Jesus in personal life, marriage, family, and ministry. Do our ordained officers set this kind of a culture?"
- Wilson Van Hooser in his blog post "What Will The Tombstone Of Our Ordained Officers Say?" (link below)