“If it is true you’re saved sheerly by grace, then the person you’re talking to about the gospel could easily be a better person than you, more moral, have more fiber, have better character. Why? Because your salvation has nothing to do with how good a person you are at all. There can never be a shred of superiority in your dealing with people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Refreshing… even beyond the exhortation to not think you’re superior… it is freeing to realize that my morality and goodness isn’t the issue, but the grace of the gospel of Jesus. We have such good news to freely share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Tim Keller, in a sermon from 2003: “If it is true you’re saved sheerly by grace, then the person you’re talking to about the gospel could easily be a better person than you, more moral, have more fiber, have better character. Why? Because your salvation has nothing to do with how good a person … Continue reading If It’s True…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}