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The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together is unavailable, but you can change that!

Too many discipleship books are written for clean, perfect people who know all the right Sunday school answers. The Imperfect Disciple is for the rest of us--people who screw up, people who are weary, people who are wondering if it's safe to say what they're really thinking. For the believer who is tired of quasi-spiritual lifehacks being passed off as true, down-and-dirty discipleship, here...

themselves to help us obey them. There is a lot, but not enough. There’s insufficient glory in the law of God to empower us to obey it. This is another provocative idea Paul explores just before he lays out his life-altering claim that beholding the glory of Jesus is what actually changes us. By contrast, he’s willing to say, focusing on the law cannot change us. The gospel is better than the law. Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not