Christianish: What If We're Not Really Following Jesus at All?

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“But the truth is, we have done more damage to the world’s impression of Jesus by feigning inaccurate perfection than we could ever cause by allowing those who don’t follow Christ to see us wrestling our sins and flaws to the ground.” (source)

“But sin only has a tendency to seem rational because it omits pertinent information. Sin grabs us with rational truth (‘it will feel good’) while discarding subsequent facts (‘until it doesn’t’). Sin has a great salesman: a voice that knows how to overmarket its menial, temporal benefits while downplaying the imbalanced cost.” (source)

“We don’t truly love mankind by becoming more like them. We truly love mankind by becoming more like Christ—and in turn revealing how they can become more like Christ. Christ is loving to all sinners—accepting of any man, woman, or child—regardless of what state of trouble or disobedience they are in. But at that point, Jesus loves them toward Himself. The direction toward Christ is indeed a direction away from sin. We cannot lead a world toward Christ and toward sin at the same time—no matter how small we deem that sin.” (source)

“Because Jesus is looking for people who are at the end of themselves.” (source)

“Conviction without love is just an angry opinion. Conviction with love proves that what is true is also alive” (source)