We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder. - R. C. Sproul

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What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

R. C. Sproul

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

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Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

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He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.

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The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

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A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

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