“Some people think intellectual assent is all that is necessary to be a Christian, but this is not true. Christian belief must become authenticated in one’s life. Truth comes first, and then personal experience. John Wesley preached the gospel a long time before his heart was transformed. In fact, one of Wesley’s most powerful sermons, ‘The Almost Christian,’ he wrote before he was ever born again. The truth must break into our lives in a deeply penetrating and intimately personal way. Jesus then goes from not only being ‘the Savior’ but to also being ‘my Savior.’ Is the truth we are proclaiming authenticated by our lives?” Dennis Kinlaw
So be it.
Pastor Kerry Willis
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