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If In Our Hearts We Really Don't Believe That God Loves Us As We Are, If We Are Still Tainted By The Lie That We Can Do Something To Make God Love Us More, We Are Rejecting The Message Of The Cross.

In Essence, There Is Only One Thing God Asks Of Us - That We Be Men And Women Of Prayer, People For Whom God Is Everything And For Whom God Is Enough. That Is The Root Of Peace. We Have That Peace When The Gracious God Is All We Seek. When We Start Seeking Something Besides Him, We Lose It.

Accepting The Reality Of Our Sinfulness Means Accepting Our Authentic Self. Judas Could Not Face His Shadow; Peter Could. The Latter Befriended The Impostor Within; The Former Raged Against Him.

Being The Beloved Is Our Identity, The Core Of Our Existence. It Is Not Merely A Lofty Thought, An Inspiring Idea, Or One Name Among Many. It Is The Name By Which God Knows Us And The Way He Relates To Us

Put Bluntly, The American Church Today Accepts Grace In Theory But Denies It In Practice. We Say We Believe That The Fundamental Structure Of Reality Is Grace, Not Works - But Our Lives Refute Our Faith.