You already-saved Christians!
Did you begin in the Spirit and are now trying to live out by the law-driven flesh?!
Check this chart to find out and see...
The Grace List
by Tim Kimmel
The Obedience-based Life | vs. | The Grace-based Life |
You live to impress God | vs. | You live to trust God |
A performance | vs. | A relationship |
A duty | vs. | A delight |
Predictable | vs. | Fluid |
Promotes fear | vs. | Promotes faith |
Creates worry | vs. | Creates calm |
Masked | vs. | Transparent |
Critical Spirit | vs. | Compassionate Spirit |
Sense a lot of guilt | vs. | Sense a lot of freedom |
Inclines you towards pridefulness | vs. | Inclines you towards humility |
Outside-in management | vs. | Inside-out surrender |
For “church” people | vs. | For everybody |
More natural | vs. | More supernatural |
Focuses on being good | vs. | Focuses on being connected |
Lends itself to self-righteousness | vs. |
Lends itself to organic obedience
Praying He makes me a grace-based live-er, more and more. I need it. And so does my family!
"And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." -John 1:16
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