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The Cross, the Resurrection, and the Death of Scorekeeping

The Cross, the Resurrection, and the Death of Scorekeeping

January 31, 2021 | Ethan Smith

Series: The Apostles' Creed

Scripture: Romans 4:18-25

“She who dies with the most checked boxes wins, right? Wrong…. [Accomplishment and ambition] are simply not the drivers of our happiness. By the time many people figure this out on their own, they have spent a lifetime checking things off lists, yet are unhappy and don’t know why.”

Arthur Brooks

“We delude ourselves into thinking that our own salvation can be achieved by keeping books on others …. as if putting ourselves at the head of a whole column marching in the wrong direction somehow made us less lost than the rest of the troops. It would be funny if it were not fatal; but fatal it is, because grace works only in those who accept their lostness. Jesus came to call sinners, not the pseudo-righteous; he came to raise the dead, not to buy drinks for the marginally alive.”

Robert Capon

“At times I feel Christ’s presence flooding my meager heart. At other times I cling on for dear life, not knowing the end of the story. But I must stake my life in this claim: that Jesus is the resurrection and the life.”

Rebecca McLaughlin

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