The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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