Comments on: Author Tim Keller on Inside LifeWay http://www.brannonmcallister.com/index.php/2009/01/31/author-tim-keller-on-inside-lifeway/ Wed, 19 May 2010 20:58:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeremiah http://www.brannonmcallister.com/index.php/2009/01/31/author-tim-keller-on-inside-lifeway/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Jeremiah Sun, 03 May 2009 02:57:23 +0000 http://www.brannonmcallister.com/?p=259#comment-303 The quote sounds similar to something he wrote in The Prodigal God. The quote sounds similar to something he wrote in The Prodigal God.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.brannonmcallister.com/index.php/2009/01/31/author-tim-keller-on-inside-lifeway/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Jeff Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:51:06 +0000 http://www.brannonmcallister.com/?p=259#comment-287 I'm not so sure it's an "implicit" message. I hear that sort of thing explicitly all the time. "You'll never have God's blessings on your life until you start..." or "God's never going to bless you unless you stop..." And those phrases are never finished with even the half-redeeming statement "...recognize that God's blessings aren't contingent on your performance." They're always finished with with something about some spiritual work I need to be doing. Or some fleshly work I need to stop doing. I don't want to continue in sin so that grace might multiply. But I do want to remember that I have a continually saving Savior, who saves me from more than my death and lives for more than my life. I’m not so sure it’s an “implicit” message. I hear that sort of thing explicitly all the time. “You’ll never have God’s blessings on your life until you start…” or “God’s never going to bless you unless you stop…” And those phrases are never finished with even the half-redeeming statement “…recognize that God’s blessings aren’t contingent on your performance.” They’re always finished with with something about some spiritual work I need to be doing. Or some fleshly work I need to stop doing.

I don’t want to continue in sin so that grace might multiply. But I do want to remember that I have a continually saving Savior, who saves me from more than my death and lives for more than my life.

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