“We are often harsher judges than God himself.”
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<br> <br> <p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER</p> <p>This is a book for </p> <ul> <li>new believers,</li> <li>lifelong followers, and</li> <li>the merely curious.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Jesus is ____. How would you finish that sentence</p> <p>The subject is there, and so is the verb, but what comes next Your answer could shed light on the path to becoming who you were made to be. In these pages, Judah Smith fills out that sentence again and again, each time further revealing the character of Jesus. He writes as if to a friend, revealing the Jesus that somber paintings and hymns fail to capture. With passion, humor, and conviction, he shows that Jesus is life. Jesus is grace. Jesus is your friend. Jesus is a new and better way to be human.</p>
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Judah Smith
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“We are often harsher judges than God himself.”
“Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.”
“We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.”
“God transforms us one area at a time.”
“Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.”
“Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.”
“Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”
“We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.”
“Grace is God-given power to live differently.”