The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life - more than money, romance, family, health, fame - and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we'll gladly let everything else go to possess Him.
J. D. GreearIt is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
J. D. GreearThe gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what heโs making us into.
J. D. GreearA Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
J. D. GreearWhen something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
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