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We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Judah Smith

Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.
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Impurity Religious Swear Thinking
Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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Clear Himself Love Sin
If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.
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God Himself People Reason Reveal Thinking
It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
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Essential Example Live Visible
Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.
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God Image Life People Style Understand Willing
Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Appeal God Sin Yourself
Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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Bad Rule Save
A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Father Follow Myself Way
God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.
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Affirmation Goal God Himself Hurry Love Priority Protection
Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
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Follow Force Grace Himself Need Rule
I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.
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Children Father Myself Need Run
When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.
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Faith Fuel Grace Love Person Prayer Purity Worship
Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.
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Depend Ourselves Performance Present Right
A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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Change God Inspirational Moments
The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
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Earth Face Issues People Reality Writing
Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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Difference Enemy Greatness Ourselves

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