"All your church attendance, all your religious activities, your
Sunday school attendance medals, your journals, having a “quiet time,”
reading the Scriptures—it’s all in vain if you don’t have Christ.
We
are saved, sanctified, and sustained by what Jesus did for us on the
cross and through the power of his resurrection. If you add to or
subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated
religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of his glory
and Christ of his sufficiency.
Romans 8:1 tells us that there is no condemnation for us, not because of all the
great stuff we’ve done but because Christ has set us free from the law
of sin and death.
My sin in the past: forgiven. My current
struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the
marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the
cross of Jesus Christ." -- Matt Chandler
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