Life gets a lot easier when you decide to do what God calls and love people despite their sin. You don’t have to condone sin, but holding a condemning grudge against someone for their sin is not our job. Jesus loved the tax collectors and the sinners without shaming them.
A few thoughts I had tonight: 1. It’s time to stop labeling spiritual issues (problems of the heart) as character traits that are unshakable small parts of life. 2. The concept of salvation through works presents an exhausting lifestyle and habits that lead to burnout
Hey buddy, been tellin’ people this for two years now. Thanks for putting it into a format where I could retweet it from a trustworthy source. Now we can stop listening to Mary, Did You Know? because it’s lame 👍🏻
You either confess or do not. If you confess and your friend also confessed, you both receive 1 year in prison on lesser charges. If you confess and your friend does not, you go free while your friend serves a full sentence of 3 years. If neither of you confess you both...
When we sit around saying “I’ll be able to worship God when...” we rob ourselves of the fullness that God has for us in this lifetime as a part of our eternity.
You will never develop a true view of God through your experiences, rather you develop a true view of your experiences through what your Bible tells you about God.
We, as humans, often want to believe that bad people go to hell. When the scripture tells us that salvation is independent of deeds. Salvation is dependent only upon Christ as our savior, that is our justification. Nothing else from that point of acceptance can change salvation.