Spiritual Authenticity = Knowing God and Walking with God

“It’s a sad but obvious fact—sinners don’t like boundaries. Sinners tend not to esteem rules. Sinners don’t like to be told what to do. Sinners don’t tend to love authority. Sinners tend to want to author their own moral codes. So you can’t even pray this prayer, “Lead us not into temptation,” unless grace has visited you. Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from “Let me do what I want to do” to “Guard me against the temptation to do what You know is best for me not to do.” If you’re a parent or can honestly reflect on your childhood, you know that one of the biggest and most important battles children have with their parents is the battle of authority. The same is true of our relationship with God. You don’t have to read any further than the third chapter of the Bible to see that battle break out and alter the entire course of human history.” —Paul David Tripp

“There is a God-originated, God-communicated set of boundaries that I have been designed to live within. Real life is found inside these boundaries, not in the discovering and experiencing what’s outside them.” —Paul David Tripp

“When dark hours and when the darkest hour comes over us, then we want to hear the voice of Jesus Christ calling in our ear: ‘Victory is Won.’ Death is swallowed up in victory. Take comfort. And may God grant that we will be able to say: I believe in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. It is in this faith we want to live and die.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Warren Baptist Church
David H. McKinley, Pastor-Teacher
3203 Washington Rd, Augusta, GA 30907
706.860.1586