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Straightening Out the Self-Centered Church: The Message of Titus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many Christians are uneasily aware that there is a gap between their conscious commitment to the Lord Jesus and their practical, day-to-day living. This does not always arise from conscious disobedience to the Lord. Often sincere Christians find that this gap is opening up in their lives and they are rather bewildered by it. Something is happening which they do not quite understand, and they are...

stressed enough. The offer of salvation is real. God is no deceiver. He is the God who does not lie (1:2). ‘The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.’ This is the message which unlocks the prison of subjectivism and self, as Paul next goes on to explain. The past fact of grace has a present continuing influence: ‘It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age
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