Luma Quotes

Luma, if you want to escape, I have a choice for you to make.

The local church is a messy place; a place full of sinners in need of their savior every day.

As long as we keep our “little” sins hidden in the dark we have no hope of overcoming and standing victorious over them.

Once we start thinking that a brother or sister, after believing in Jesus, must also adhere to whatever our hobby horse issue is, not for maturation, but for genuineness, then we are telling them that Jesus is not sufficient.

The gospel is a balanced meal... It is both the milk and the meat! The gospel manifests itself as milk for the new believer, and that same gospel manifests itself as meat for the spiritually mature.

Any setting up of our personal convictions and standards as the watermark of sanctification for our fellow brethren is forbidden by Scripture

Grace is a tireless hunter, chasing and overpowering me every day. It will not let me pay it back or earn my keep. The only appeasement it abides is complete surrender in quiet humility. Each day the Spirit harnesses me with grace. He is alive and powerful and palpable in inexpressible ways, always bringing me to the grace of Jesus:

However, at some unspoken level, partly out of fear of losing God's favor, I embraced the idea that we stayed in by our good works. This

We wrongly conclude that since we may not be captivated by beauty, sophistry, power, celebrity or money—the idols we claim are worshiped by our culture—then we must be idolatry-free. We dismiss or diminish our “clean” idols—all those good things we trust in to save us and our children to make us “clean.” Christians can have many idols: Doctrinal pharisaism can be an idol, morality can be an idol, penning harsh and mocking words towards others in defense of the faith can be an idol, apologetics can be an idol, ministry in the church can be an idol, hospitality can be an idol, a charismatic or celebrity pastor can be an idol, really just about anything can be an idol. Our hearts are deceptive, and unless we are overpowered by the grace and the glory of God through self-conscious gospel immersion, we can become ensnared to almost anything.

Christians can have many idols:

The gospel shows us how small and needy we are. The gospel is all about what God has done in the life and death of Jesus Christ. We don't like that.

There are two ways the Church loses its saltiness and its position within the surrounding culture: One, when the Church in its preaching and practices looks no different then the world (e.g. teaching is reduced to self-help guidelines, “how to be a better you” culture, peace- and prosperity-oriented). Two, when the Church retreats into a corner, refusing to engage culture. In both of these cases the image of the gospel presented to the world is anemic and lies about who God is and what he has done in Christ.

There is sin in every church, because every church, no matter how small or how selective, is made up of fallen humans.

Because we are made in the image of God to be worshipers of God, we are made with a desire for both his closeness and majesty—his immanence and transcendence. What we see in Jesus is the Incarnation of both of these qualities.

The “world” that God hates, we should hate. The “world” that God loves, we should love.

The love of God is so unlike the things we are used to as sinful people that it requires awe, it requires thought, it requires a beholding, and it requires a converted heart and mind in order to even begin to understand it.

Being a missional Christian is being a Christian who loves Jesus and has been so transformed by that love that you desire it intensely for all those that God brings your way.

Our hearts are deceptive, and unless we are overpowered by the grace and the glory of God through self-conscious gospel immersion, we can become ensnared to almost anything.

Gospel doctrine and gospel action go together!

We should long for the time when the world rejects us for the right reasons, but unfortunately we give them plenty of unbiblical reasons to reject us now.

When “[we] look to a created thing to give [us] something that only God can give [us], that's idolatry.9

Idolatry is a foundational sin for all humans. Therefore, Christian and non-Christian alike need the gospel preached in such a way that hearts will be exposed and challenged and idols confronted and destroyed.

The gospel is not a set of elementary doctrines just to get people to become Christians, nor is it the expounding of principles telling people how to live.12 The real gospel has power: real, supernatural, transformative power. The real gospel is the kingdom of God being kneaded in, and throughout, the world.

If we are distracted by the things of the world and fall into gospel amnesia, then we will neither speak nor live any differently than the unbeliever.

Tri-Luma

Luma had always told them they had to shake off bad calls. In all her years of coaching, she liked to say, she’d never seen a referee change his mind about a call because of the arguments of players or coaches. Bad calls were part of the game; you had to play on.

By forgetting God's love we can easily slip into forgetting the depth of our own sin because we focus on what we see as the world's sin.

I appropriate the righteousness of Christ by reminding myself that when God sees me, it is not just at the ‘not guilty’ level but as being clothed with the robes of Jesus

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