Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Keller on Conviction

“If you know what He has done at infinite cost to himself—He’s put you into a relationship so that you’ll never be rejected by Him—then your motivation when you sin is to go get Him. You want fellowship with Him. When the thing that most assures you is the thing that most convicts you, you’ll be okay because when you’re convicted of sin in a gospel way it drives you toward God.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.”

- Tim Keller, “How the Gospel Changes Us” (message given at Redeemer Presbyterian Church)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

are u still alive

Josh Via said...

Wes, slackin' off a bit, eh? Hey bro, we're pumped to see you guys at Parkwood's student retreat next weekend! Sweet money! Lookin' forward to it!

Kathy Little said...

Well, maybe it's just me and $jmooney$ and J.Via that miss your blogging! Did you break your hand digging in that hard Carolina clay as you planted those trees?

Anonymous said...

dude are you ever going to update this thing

rayhardee.com said...

Hey Wes. Ray Hardee here. Wanted to follow-up with you about your church plat and invite yu to a meeting on Tuesday the 18th. Give me a call at home at 704-824-7888,

Ray