1. We take what we perceive to be freedom and turn it into a new credo, a new law, an idol to be lifted up and lived out.
  2. It is only when individuals are bound together in community that they become fully human.
  3. Led by God’s Word we can grasp why this gap exists, grows, and threatens us. Simply put, we don’t take sin seriously. We don’t take the effects of our sinful rebellion on all of creation seriously.
  4. And your life, weary and broken as it is, is hidden by God in Christ—tucked away in God’s enduring and eternally given Word, in Jesus.
  5. Gone, abolished, put away with, undone, and destroyed are any and all notions that my repentance unlocks, sets free, or earns God’s forgiveness.

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