Venti Jesus Please
Greg Stier
“…it’s all about a relationship with Jesus—a relationship that’s continually changing me from the inside out and drawing me deeper and closer to God. It’s a growing process. But the process is never fully or finally complete and because of that, in some ways, Christians always fall short of what Jesus intended. It’s in that sense that every Christian, including me, is a hypocrite.”
“God created people because he wanted to relate to them. But a loving relationship can only exist if it includes the choice not to love. So God gave them a choice, and they chose to go against God.”
“…as a Christian, I have an explanation for the problem of evil. The problem of evil is not God. It’s us…”
“Before you can fully appreciate the good news, you have to fully embrace the bad news. The antidote… is only good news to those who know they’ve been poisoned… Jesus is only good news to those who recognize that they have… sin in their souls and are looking for the cure.”
“…faith is trusting… It’s so easy that a child could do it and a ‘religious’ person could choke on it.”
“The word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin word that means ‘to bind back.’ All religions are trying in one way or another to bind themselves back to God through good deeds, sacrifices, baptism, codes, creeds or whatever. All of it falls short. …there is no way to ‘bind ourselves back’ to God through our good deeds, because compared to God’s perfection, our good deeds are like filthy rags… Christianity… is realizing that God bound himself to humanity through his Son Jesus Christ… And Jesus offers to unbind us forever from the penalty of sin…”
“…the gift of forgiveness, of everlasting eternal life… is not achieved by our good deeds, but received through faith. It’s not a matter of trying, but trusting.”
“…being open-minded means we must entertain the logically possibility that the only way to heaven could be through Jesus and Jesus alone.”
“It may seem like Jesus is just a truth for me to lean on. He’s not… he’s my stretcher.”
“All those facts and stuff give me mental confidence that my Christian faith is on firm footing, but it’s Jesus who meets the deepest needs of my soul. It was Jesus who convinced me he was real—not human arguments.”
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