Everything Else Thrown In

Some of the best lines C.S. Lewis ever wrote:

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. but look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

                   - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, page 190

The Great Exchange

"This is what happens when we become Christians. Christ assumes our liabilities and graciously gives us his assets. "

— Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp, How People Change, 

      (Winston-Salem, NC: Punch Press, 2006), 55

HT:  Of First Importance

The Great Exchange

Here's a simple explanation by Mark Driscoll of "the great exchange" - Christ's righteousness for our unrighteousness.

This is the center of the Gospel - and so many Christians do not really get it!