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The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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Get Better Need Self
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Christian Effort Year
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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Grace Judgment Longing
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Favor Favors God Walk
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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Miserable Source Validation
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think
God’s grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I’ll do that for you. Or if you don’t do this for me, I won’t do that for you. And God’s grace works in a completely different direction.
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Different Grace Life
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
Grace doesn’t lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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Grace Kindness Remedy
If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
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Compelled Feel Identity
The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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Free Happy People Think
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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Enjoy Friendly Theological
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
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Church People Thinking

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