Trusting in God's grace means we set our focus on Christ himself rather than evaluate our own spiritual development.

Every day we are challenged to interact with God's Spirit, the Scriptures, and other believers as he works from the inside out to make us more like Jesus.

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As with all discipleship, life change happens through personal devotion to God, Interaction with others, sound teaching, and practical application with feedback.

Apprenticeship is the best method to develop leaders in a disciple making church.

The Bible is not just a book to read and study. It is a living document, whose author indwells all disciples.

If we produce Bible scholars who are not fishing for men and making disciples, we are teaching people to disobey Christ.

Our Father reconciles us to himself unilaterally, based on the trustworthiness of his Son, not our own. It is a gift beyond all reasonable expectations, one we could never earn or possibly deserve.

God wants us to experience everything Christ purchased for us, which includes freedom from the bondage sin produces.

What Jesus accomplished through his life, death, resurrection, ascension, and coming return is and will be so spectacular and comprehensive that it cannot be contained in a single Bible idea or word.

Our challenge is to learn how to live in faithful dependence upon God’s leading and direction, instead of simply doing whatever we want or decide. This is what it means to keep the Sabbath in the New Covenant.

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