fruit of the Holy Spirit and the new righteousness we have in Christ Jesus? I don’t believe so. While there is an important place for endeavoring to fulfill oughts in the Christian life, the most fundamental thing believers need is to have regular times when they rest in an experience of Jesus as real. We need to have times when we cease from all striving and experience as real the truth that Jesus passionately loves us as we are, not because of what we do. We need to rest in a real
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