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Every good work you have done towards gaining eternal life is worthless. Your Christian best will never be good enough. Your reaction towards those statements might mimic those of the Israelites in Jesus' day. It was the basic idea Jesus was expressing when He said, "unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:20). In that one statement by Jesus, all of their preconceived ideas of God and salvation were put into question. They saw the Pharisees as their models of holiness which few, if...

We have the truth, fancy buildings, and elaborate worship services. We have prayer meetings, Bible studies, and community outreach programs. Yet something is still missing. In spite of our religious appearance, many of our churches no longer resemble the church written about in the book of Acts. Many Christians today are not easily distinguishable from the world. We may go through the motions, but our heart isn't in it. This is what happens when our "Christianity" is neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm. How could God's people get to this point? In this book, author and pastor Bill Kasper...