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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

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
We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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God Himself Judgement
Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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Difference Enemy Greatness Ourselves
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Big Estimation God Sin
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
What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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Community Modeling Opportunity
Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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Clear Himself Love Sin
The common denominator is that we all need help.
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Help Kindness Need Requirement
Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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Brain Enemy Grace Logic Time Worst
Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
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God Power Sin Struggle Willing Yourself
A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Father Follow Myself Way
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
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
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God Level Love Rate Share Sin System
What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn’t matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.
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Change Future Ourselves Present Transformation
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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Choice Difficult Hope Situation Trap
Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
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God Grace Name Person

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