The Whole Christ

it jeopardizes not simply the Decalogue; it dismantles the truth of the gospel.

antinomianism separates God’s law from God’s person, and grace from the union with Christ in which the law is written in the heart.

Without that transformation and new conformity of life we do not have any evidence that we were ever his in the first place.

Nor does he mean to leave us the way he found us, but to transform us into the likeness of his Son.

He receives us only in Christ and for Christ’s sake.

he accepts us despite the way we are.

it is misleading to say that God accepts us the way we are.

underneath lies a failure to understand grace and ultimately to understand God.

you disagree with me] he accepts me as I am, and therefore I will remain as I am.”