“All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out of the changes that understanding creates in your heart. Faith in the gospel re-structures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting.”
- Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God (new York, NY: Dutton, 2008), 121.
Hat Tip: Of First Importance
The intimacy with the word and the creator of the word completes the picture. One or the other leaves you lacking, but doing both leaves you walking in God's fulness.
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