A Must Read

This is an awesome short post from Ben Arment, founder of Whiteboard Sessions.  It’s on the chasm between the grace and holiness camps.

“There’s such a huge chasm in ministry between those who advocate the holiness of God and those who advocate the grace of God.”

This is from a guy who just brought them all together.  I love his final quote.

“If we truly understood the Gospel, we’d look at the cross and see the perfect collision of grace and holiness. The righteous wrath of God satisfied by his unconditional grace.”

Read the rest here.

I still think there is a third camp.  That’s the one I’m trying to live in, the one that embraces the cross.

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Straight From The Horses Mouth

“I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (ht)

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If you are willing to serenely bear the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter – Saint Therese of Lisieux

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All sins are reparable except the sin of believing one is without sin. – M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie

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