Justification (131)
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  1. The truth is, a Christian's holiness is hidden outside himself in Christ through faith.
  2. Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"
  3. "What do you mean, 'Confess that I don't believe in God?' I'm a Christian. Of course I believe in God!"
  4. It's easy to forget that today, just like then, most people who laud Luther publicly as a reformer, revolutionary, and so on, secretly reject his teaching because it's too much to take.
  5. So, what do we do when someone doesn't believe God's promise of forgiveness, life, and eternal salvation is for him?
  6. Can God forgive friends who abandoned Him in His hour of greatest need?
  7. Imagine a church's mission statement is: "You Don't Have to Fake It Till You Make It." That is, you walk into church and an usher hands you a bulletin
  8. “Why now,” I said to no one, or to myself, or to God. Whoever. I was drunk, strung out, mostly dead, hopeless in the darkness. I knew I’d done it all to myself. I didn’t need God to drive the point home.
  9. Believe in God, belong to a church, and behave yourself isn’t the Gospel.
  10. I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.