'As the great congregational minister Edward Payson said, "You cannot make a rich man beg like a poor man; you cannot make a man that is full cry for food like one that is hungry: no man who has a good opinion of himself cry for mercy like one who feels that he is poor and needy." Christian churches are not congregations of the righteous, the morally successful, and the completely obedient. Such people do not exist in the world. Christian congregations are founded on a recognition of our own poverty, our own spiritual need, and Christ's fullness. Christ died to procure mercy, and he calls you to turn from your sins and to trust in him. Oh friend leave your sins for Christ.' p194
We are always the poor who need the great physician, to forget this is to become self dependent, self satisfied and ultimately to become self-righteous which is really unrighteousness.
LORD be merciful to be a sinner!
Shalom
Stephen
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