This morning, Byron Yawn offered a compelling meditation on the gospel, complementing what I wrote yesterday about the gospel and sanctification. Here he asks, how will the gospel influence “good” people?
Obviously, conversion brings a change, but salvation is not about the adjustment of one’s behavior from bad to good. Ultimately, Christianity is not about our “goodness” at all. It is about Jesus’ “goodness.”…
We have to repent of our goodness as much as we repent of our badness.…
If the Gospel we preach does not hit the heroine addict and home-schooler in the same way, then we are missing it. People are saved by grace whether off the street or out of the pew. The unrepentant heroine addict and the unrepentant home-schooled kid have one thing in common – neither has acknowledged their need for Christ. The heroine addict hopes God will be lenient. The morally upright assumes they are better than the heroine addict. Both hope in vain. Christ is the only answer for both.
Read all of Heroine Addicts, Home-school Kids and the Gospel of God’s Grace.
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