So Often We Try To Develop Christian

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.

Love Is Costly. T Forgive In Love Costs Us Our Sense Of Justice. To Serve In Love Costs Us Time. To Share In Love Costs Us Money. Every Act Of Love Costs Us In Some Way, Just As It Cost God To Love Us. But We Are To Live A Life Of Love Just As Christ Loves Us And Gave Himself For Us At Great Cost To Himself.

Your Worst Days Are Never So Bad That You Are Beyond The Reach Of God's Grace. And Your Best Days Are Never So Good That You Are Beyond The Need Of God's Grace.pharisee-type Believers Unconsciously Think They Have Earned God's Blessing Through Their Behavior. Guilt-laden Believers Are Quite Sure They Have Forfeited God's Blessing Through Their Lack Of Discipline Or Their Disobedience. Both Have Forgotten The Meaning Of Grace Because They Have Moved Away From The Gospel And Have Slipped Into A Performance Relationship With God.

The Sin Of Worldliness Is A Preoccupation With The Things Of This Temporal Life. It's Accepting And Going Along With The Views And Practices Of Society Around Us Without Discerning If They Are Biblical. I Believe That The Key To Our Tendencies Toward Worldliness Lies Primarily In The Two Words “going Along”. We Simply Go Along With The Values And Practices Of Society.

... Self-control Is Not Control By Oneself Through One's Own Willpower But Rather Control Of Oneself Through The Power Of The Holy Spirit.