Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
by Michael Spencer
WaterBrook Press, June 2010
240 pp., $10.99
Martin Luther let me know that I was not qualified to receive the victorious-Christian-life merit badge. He also let me know that I wasn't a very good Christian.
The gospel that put an end to the proud monk Martin Luther and produced a Christian created one of the few mystical experiences of my life. That gospel laid itself out in my mind and heart in a way I'd never seen it or heard it before.
For the first time, the truth that Jesus is the one Mediator between God and human beings knocked me to the floor and suspended me over the truth that God had done all things necessary for my salvation. I could stop looking for the secret key, and I could ditch the quest to demonstrate that I was a Christian hero. I was humbled as I looked at a universe of grace that filled my empty soul with the love of God in Jesus.
Source: Christianity Today
Excerpted from Mere Churchianity
by Michael Spencer. Copyright © 2010 by Michael Spencer.
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