1. When a congregation is abused by its pastor, it loses more than a shepherd. It loses its threshold place; that fragile seam between earth and heaven.
  2. We can lay down our sledgehammers of moralistic performance, which aren’t effective anyway, and we can trust that we are his and his life is ours.
  3. Faith takes God at his word and holds his promise to be true for me because I know God would not lie to me.
  4. Fideistic Christianity may look bold, but it is fragile.
  5. He doesn’t consume us, even though that is what we deserve. Instead, Jesus comes down to us and consumes all our sin by taking it on himself.

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