The Bible is simply the cradle that holds Christ. – we are simultaneously sinner and saint, 100 percent of both, all the time. We die and are made new, but that’s different from spiritual self-improvement We don’t continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. – No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don’t earn a thing when it comes to God’s love, and we only try to live in response to the gift. – God’s grace is a gift that is freely given to us. “in short, here’s what Pastor Ross taught me: I can’t imagine that God doesn’t reveal God’s self in countless ways outside of the symbol system of Christianity” “I can’t imagine that the God of the universe is limited to our ideas of God. I love the heart for all persons who are created in God’s image. The theology of grace that Martin Luther drew us to is so evident in this book. Pastrix, the cranky, beautiful faith of a sinner and saint, by Nadia Bolz-Weberįollowing up from the previous biography of Dietric Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor living during the second world war, our friends loaned us another book written by a Lutheran pastor who has a church in Denver Colorado.
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