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WHERE SINNER/SAINTS GATHER AROUND THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL

You cant escape your sin, you can only be delivered from it
“What makes a Theologian is his (or her) ability to properly distinguish between the law and gospel, not ability and prowess in scholastic pursuits”

Martin Luther
“American Christianity now is in crisis, in large part because people have marketed it as a religion of good people getting better, when in fact it is a religion of bad people coping with their failure to be good”

David Zahl
“Since its demands remain perpetually holy, just, and good – and since we are none of those things – the law can only condemn those who rely on their keeping of it to save them.”

Robert Capon
For quite a few people, there is something upsetting about the 100%-with-no-exceptions forgiveness that Jesus talked about. It is a feature that upsets conservatives. But it also upsets liberals. There is something in it to offend everybody. Except the person who needs it at the time.

Paul Zahl

WHERE SINNER/SAINTS GATHER AROUND THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL

You cant escape your sin, you can only be delivered from it

“What makes a Theologian is his (or her) ability to properly distinguish between the law and gospel, not ability and prowess in scholastic pursuits”

“American Christianity now is in crisis, in large part because people have marketed it as a religion of good people getting better, when in fact it is a religion of bad people coping with their failure to be good”

“Since its demands remain perpetually holy, just, and good – and since we are none of those things – the law can only condemn those who rely on their keeping of it to save them.”

For quite a few people, there is something upsetting about the 100%-with-no-exceptions forgiveness that Jesus talked about. It is a feature that upsets conservatives. But it also upsets liberals. There is something in it to offend everybody. Except the person who needs it at the time.

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