“It’s no wonder that self-help books top the charts in Christian publishing and that counseling offices are overwhelmed. Our pride and our neglect of the gospel force us to run from seminar to seminar, book to book, counselor to counselor, always seeking but never finding some secret to holy living.
Most of us have never really understood that Christianity is not a self-help religion meant to enable moral people to become more moral. We don’t need a self-help book; we need a Savior. We don’t need to get our collective act together; we need death and resurrection and the life-transforming truths of the gospel. And we don’t need them just once, at the beginning of our Christian life; we need them every moment of every day.”
- Elyse Fitzpatrick and Dennis Johnson, Counsel from the Cross (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2009), 30.
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Of First Importance,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for finding and posting these wonderful tidbits every day (sometimes more). I always look forward to reading your posts. They’re very helpful, and focus my attention on what’s TRULY important, JESUS. Keep it up. It’s a refreshing spring, a needful meal to a hungry soul. A soul needing to be reminded it’s not about me, it’s about Jesus dying, living, and one day – returning FOR me.
Blessings to you,
Brian
[...] Of First Importance, had a poignant quote from Counsel from the Cross: Connecting Broken People to the Love of Christ by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Dennis Johnson which I hope that those of us who follow Christ will consider. “It’s no wonder that self-help books top the charts in Christian publishing and that counseling offices are overwhelmed. Our pride and our neglect of the gospel force us to run from seminar to seminar, book to book, counselor to counselor, always seeking but never finding some secret to holy living. [...]