A Body Knit Together - Fellowship & Expository Teaching

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Abiding In Christ and His Truth

It is only the crucified Christ dying in the place of sinners who saves. The example of Christ does not save. Jesus is not saying to us that if we will only follow his example and try to live as he lived we will find happiness in this life and salvation in the world to come. That is not his message. No man was ever saved by following Christ. Following is involved, of course. After we are saved we are to follow him; he has left us an example for that. But we are not saved by his example. We are saved through faith in what he has done on the cross. After that we can follow him. Moreover, we are not saved by his teaching. Jesus did not say that he could point out the way to God and that if men and women would only follow that way, they would find him. That is what teachers of the other world religions have done, but not Jesus. He did not say, “I will show you the way.” He said, “I am the way.” Besides, the entire teaching of the Word of God is to the effect that he made the way by dying for us.

James Montgomery Boice

Why Christ Alone?

It was to save sinners that Christ Jesus came into the world. He did not come to help them save themselves, nor to induce them to save themselves, nor even to enable them to save themselves. He came to save them!

William Hendriksen

To His Praise and to His Glory  

Here is Christ’s glory, that he died for us; and it is in this above all else that he should be honored. Will you honor him? The best way is by coming to him in faith in order to receive him as your Savior. Or again, if you already know him as your Savior, it is by living as he lived and by bringing others to him.

James Montgomery Boice