Jerry Bridges

I love the late Jerry Bridges writing, I love that he gets the difference between Grace and works, between morality and Gospel. In this quote he also gets to the difficult that some moral people have with the gospel. I believe it was harder for Nicodemus with his great learning and morality to accept Christ's message than the woman at the well.

I believe that human morality, rather than flagrant sin, is the greatest obstacle to the gospel today. If you ask the average law-abiding person why he expects to go to heaven, the answer will be some form of "because I am good." And the more religious a person is, the more difficult it is to realize his or her need of the righteousness of Christ.' Jerry Bridges The Gospel for Real Life. 

1929-2016