When Jesus heard this, he told them,
"Healthy people don"t need a doctor - sick people do.
I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."
Mark 2:17 NLT
I so want to believe that I can be good enough, do enough, get it right, that I can save myself.
If I just do X a bit better, and cut out Y...
Jesus says here that if you think you can do this on your own, satisfy a Holy God, then I can't really help you.
Once we see that we need Grace, that we're all broken, fallen people, that we all have "stuff", then we can see God's Grace as the wonderful gift that it is, and step into it.
Yes I want to be better, do better, not to earn that Grace, but because of it.
I cannot earn a gift (& cannot unearn it)
#grace
#inthistogether
#gospelofmark
#wordsofJesus
"Church isn't
A museum
for good people
But a hospital
For the broken"
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he looks at p
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