If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
From Tullian Tchividjian
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.
We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
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