Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
JUDAH SMITHRules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
More Judah Smith Quotes
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Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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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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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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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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We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
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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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Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.
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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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Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
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