An excerpt from Cole's blog:
"The best thing we have to say anytime to anyone is the gospel. It speaks to suffering both self-induced and inflicted, shouts victory over every sin and pain and death. Christians need to hear the gospel over and over again because we never quite fully believe we’re that loved and graced by God, so we fall back into gospels of sin management and behavior modification. Likewise, everyone needs to hear over and over again why we need the gospel because we (the world) never quite fully believe we are that bad or bad off before God, so we fall back into idealisms about human nature and our overall security. As Meister Eckhart put it, “God is at home. We are in the far country.”
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.."so we fall back into gospels of sin management and behavior modification. " I love that. so true. for some reason salvation is looked at as a one time experience to keep me from hell and from then one, it's just about me focusing on my "whiteness" and cleanliness and praying no one finds out I'm still a needy sinner! where is the gospel in that?
"from then on" I meant to say
That was the part that stuck with me the most as well. And you're exactly right- salvation is so often viewed that way. I just needed this little reminder and thought maybe someone else might be edified by it as well :)
Hope you guys are doing well!
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