How are you doing, Friend?

Are you the kind of person that learns the hard way or the easy way? Do you rely on your own effort or God's effort? God's righteousness will keep you safe. Self-reliance won't. Developing a relationship with God is to experience eternal life.

If we are to trust in God's righteousness, does this mean we can sin all we want without consequence? I've encountered some people who believe such grace is cheap. They argue that the certainty of salvation removes the incentive to stop sinning. They believe it is possible to lose salvation. The fear of losing salvation becomes the incentive to keep people from perpetual sin. Rules and consequences keep a person honest, they say.

Matt

P.S. I'm working on a card deck of questions to help build intimacy in marriage.

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