We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
JUDAH SMITHJesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
More Judah Smith Quotes
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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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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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Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
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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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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 you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.
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Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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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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Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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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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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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What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.
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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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