'Dr M L J often used a diagnostic question to determine a person’s spiritual understanding and condition. He would ask, “Are you now ready to say that you are a Christian?”
He recounts that over the years, whenever he would ask the question, people would often hesitate and say, “I do not feel that I am good enough”
To that he gives this response:
At once I know that ….they are still thinking in terms of themselves; their idea still is that they have to make themselves good enough to be a Christian…It sounds very modest but it is a lie of the devil, it is a denial of the faith….you will never be good enough; nobody has ever been good enough. The essence of the Christian salvation is that He is good enough and that I am in Him!'
Centre Church, Tim Keller, Page 30
In order to understand the implications of the Dr's question this is essential listening.
In order to understand the implications of the Dr's question this is essential listening.
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