If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.
Timothy KellerEven if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
Timothy KellerOur character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
Timothy KellerLegalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
Timothy Keller