601 Quotes About Redemption

This is the way I address the issue if I’m asked about my sexuality: “I am a follower of Christ who happens to experience same-sex attraction.” Other Christians may struggle with all kinds of sin: gossip, greed, anger, pride, and so on. But I seriously doubt that they would identify themselves as a “greedy” Christian or a “gossiping” Christian. So why would I identity as a “gay” Christian?

If we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice of sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

God created the universe; he can heal sexual brokenness in an instant. But sometimes he allows various struggles to persist, because we are being sanctified. These struggles force us to press into him more and more and depend on his grace to get us “from one degree of glory to another.

Somewhere in the last decade, “I disagree with you” came to mean “I hate you.

The most dangerous part of this is that if homosexuality is no longer regarded as a sin, then why would anyone need to repent of it? And if there is no repentance, of course, there is no salvation.

Everyone has a past, but Jesus is sanctifying our present.

My motivation for writing this book is not to win a debate. It is not so I could be right and you wrong. More than anything, my hope is that you will come away with a better understanding of this complex issue, from every angle, so you can make informed choices that affect eternity

God! You have my life! It’s all yours!

Without redemption, how can there be repentance?