The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.

Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.

Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?

God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.