This is a healthy church, and healthy churches are hypocrisy farms. The more you have to live up to, and the less you are doing it, the easier it is to pretend. But the answer is grace, not effort. The answer is not for you to hop on your bicycle of ethical or doctrine purity, and peddle harder. The answer is not for you to sweat more. The answer is to die. How did Jesus save you from all your vices when you were first converted? He made it possible for you to die. How will He deliver you now from your pretended virtues? The same way—die. What happens after that? That’s His business.
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Wow.
