Friends
"No matter what standards we may have adopted, the only sensible solution is to drop all standards as the means to feeling good about ourselves. This is what being “under grace” really means. We drop the standards we’ve adopted for measuring ourselves, and we unabashedly cling to God’s full, no-holds-barred acceptance of us. We choose to agree that we are 100 percent loved and approved even if we never set foot in church again, even if we never read our Bibles ever again, even if we never share our faith with anyone ever again, and even if we fail miserably in how we treat people. While all of those activities may naturally flow from our relationship with God, his unconditional love for us is not affected by any of them!" (from The Hurt & The Healer)
Andrew Farley
