“Why do we focus on our motivations for [repenting]? Why do we keep asking ourselves ‘Am I heartily sorry? Do I sincerely repent? Or am I only going through the motions?’ Behind the veil of our confused emotions and self-scrutinizing, the age-old internal battle continues. Our sinful nature is on a crusade, and its target conquest is confession.” Chad Bird penned those words, but I think we all fall to that same lame and un-biblical idea that we are saved, and "kept saved", not just by faith, but "saving faith" or "sincere faith" or some other qualifier to "faith in Jesus". But the reality is, the good news is, that we're saved by faith alone. Faith! Alone! Thats it. Boom. Bam. Amen! Join us as we sit with Chad Bird, and listen in while he shares his own story and insights. Chad is a brother who says what we are all thinking but nobody wants to say. Normal struggles for normal Christians.  What's crazier is that Chad reminds us that he's not the first to say these shocking and seemingly "un-pious" questions: he reminds us, for example, of Psalm 13 where the Psalmist prays back to God (the very things that God gave Him to pray) (and they seem scandalous and irreverent, but again, they are the language of languish given to man from God to pray back to God!): "How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?  How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?". 

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