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Ellen Lebsock – el@isaiah496.org
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Bibliography: All scriptures quoted within the site are
from the Revised Standard Version unless otherwise noted.
The New Testament in Modern English, author – J.B. Phillips
Macmillan Publishing Company 866 Third Avenue, NY, NY 1002 ISBN 0-02-596970-6
Harper Study Bible
Revised Standard Version, author – Harold Lindsell, Ph.D., D.D.
Zondervan Bible Publishers Grand Rapids, Michigan LCCC No 64-17541
The Living Bible Paraphrased
A Thought-for-Thought Translation
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Wheaton, Illinois ISBN 0-8423-2293-0
⇐ Renew Your Expectations ⇒
Richard & Ellen Lebsock
Just as the lost don't understand the Gospel, the saved rarely understand grace.
There are few activities more exhausting and less rewarding than Christians attempting to please the people around them by maintaining impossible legalistic demands. What a tragic trap, and thousands are caught in it. When will we ever learn?
Grace has set us free!
That message streamed often through the sermons and personal testimonies of the apostle Paul.
The lost need to hear how they can go from the island of debris, filled with misery and guilt, to the land of peace and forgiveness, flowing with mercy and grace. Those bridges are built when we lovingly and patiently communicate the Gospel. You don't have to have a seminary degree. You don't have to know a lot of the religious vocabulary. In your own authentic, honest, and unguarded manner, share with people what Christ has done for you. Who knows? It may not be long before you will know the joy of leading a lost sinner from the darkness of death's dungeon across the bridge to the liberating hope of new life in Christ. Once they've arrived, release them. Release them into the magnificent freedom that grace provides. Don't smother them with a bunch of rules and regulations that put them on probation and keep them in that holding tank until they "get their lives straightened out."; Making us holy is the Spirit's work. Be faithful to dispense the Gospel to the lost and Grace to the saved. Then leave the results in the Lord's hands.