Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 7:1-12 “Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone …. Apart from Christ we can do nothing, so if we do nothing, we can be sure it is apart from him.” Dallas Willard “In Jesus’ death and resurrection, the whole test-passing, brownie-point-earning rigmarole of the human race has been canceled . . . The gospel of grace is the final posting of the CLOSED sign on the sweatshop of the human race’s perpetual struggle to think well of itself.” Robert Farrar Capon “Spiritual practices don’t justify us. They don’t save us. Rather, they refine our Christianity; they make the inheritance Christ gives us on the Cross more fully our own. The spiritual disciplines – such as regular prayer, and fasting, and tithing, and attentiveness to our bodies – can form us as Christians throughout our lives. Are we obligated to observe these disciplines? Not gener