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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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