The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?"
Tullian TchividjianThe gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.
Tullian Tchividjian