The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.