The Burden of Being Better
One of the most devastating influences upon the Christian faith has been egalitarianism. Christians trying to signal they are no better than anyone else has been ruinous for the faith.
If there is a phrase that we could retire once and for all from the Christian lexicon it is:
“I am just a sinner like you.”
If you are Christian, this simply is not true. You might have once been a sinner like others, but you no longer are. You have been redeemed, saved, rescued, made new, born again. You are described as being saved and redeemed, so much so that you have been made completely new. 2 Corinthians 5 says it this way:
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: The old has gone, the new has come!”
“In Christ” you are fully, completely one hundred percent saved. We are seen by God as we are “in Christ.” This means that we are no longer our old self anymore. There has been a fundamental…
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