Biblical Community Is First Of All The

As We Grow In The Knowledge Of God's Holiness, Even Though We Are Growing In The Practice Of Holiness, It Seems The Gap Between Our Knowledge And Our Practice Always Gets Wider. This Is The Holy Spirit's Way Of Drawing Us To More And More Holiness.

God's Unfailing Love For Us Is An Objective Fact Affirmed Over And Over In The Scriptures. It Is True Whether We Believe It Or Not. Our Doubts Do Not Destroy God's Love, Nor Does Our Faith Create It. It Originates In The Very Nature Of God, Who Is Love, And It Flows To Us Through Our Union With His Beloved Son.

Not Only Has The Debt (of Our Sins) Been Fully Paid, There Is No Possibility Of Ever Going Into Debt Again.

Legalism Insists On Conformity To Manmade Religious Rules And Requirements, Which Are Often Unspoken But Are Nevertheless Very Real... There Are Far Too Many Instances Within Christendom Where Our Traditions And Rules Are, In Practice, More Important Than God's Commands.

We Don't Have To Start All Over Again And Try To Keep The Slate Clean. There Is No More Slate.