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Dallas Willard defined grace as: “God doing in us and for us what we could not do ourselves.” This definition keeps grace from…
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Checklist Spirituality
Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness
DeYoung writes, “A moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the heart.” And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective—emphasizing the rules we already keep while ignoring the ones that would cost us. External compliance without heart transformation is not the holiness the gospel produces.
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Moral checklists miss the idols of the heart and easily produce pride or despair.
- Formation
- Idolatry
- Grace
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