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There are many people who struggle to understand a God who unconditionally and preemptively forgives everyone.
The forgiveness of God is unconditional and preemptive.
Maybe my struggle has been with the way in which our culture has always portrayed prayer.
We live in an age in which stimulation and consumption are all too normal in our lives.
The Good News of the Kingdom of God is not one of the many things. It is the thing.
I can't overstate how important it is for each of us to have people in our lives that we allow to speak truth to us.
Right now our conversations are not conversations.
The message of “your work only matters if thousands of people are reading it” began to unconsciously work it’s way into my head. And that’s a message that completely kills.
Could it be that we appear so good and perfect in our churches that there is no place for the sinner, much less a confession to another brother or sister?