Here is a quote that Russ used the other Sunday and I heard another pastor use. Love it!
"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
— D.A. Carson
His Grace!
Matt
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That is a great quote...statement; each component I agree with entirely and mostly because I have demonstrated most of those in my own life all too often. Fortunately, by the grace of God, as I have fallen short in areas He has brought them to my attention and helped me toward obedience, mainly through the instruction of His word and the encouragement of brothers like yourself...thanks. Milt
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