Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love

Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love

by Bryan Loritts
Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love

Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love

by Bryan Loritts

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Overview

White-knuckling can never get you where you want to go. But grace can.

You already know because you've tried: repeated attempts to earn God's love and approval get you nowhere and leave you exhausted. When performance taints our relationship with him, the Christian life can turn into an unholy hustle. It was never meant to be like this.

In Saving the Saved, Pastor Bryan Loritts reveals the astonishing truth that God doesn't want your spiritual scorekeeping. He simply wants your surrender. The punchline of the gospel of Matthew is just that--a message of grace and performance-free love to do-good, try-harder Jews who thought they had to earn their way into God's favor. It's an ancient message, yet it can be a lifeline to us today as we live in a world of performance metrics. Just as Matthew wrote to the Jews in his gospel, we were never meant to flounder under the pressures and anxieties of show Christianity. Make no mistake: we are called to live in obedience, but Jesus wants us to save us from the illusion that our actions can ever earn God's acceptance of us.

In Pastor Bryan's relevant, uncompromising style, Saving the Saved proclaims the good news that once the pressure is off to perform, we are free to abide. Beyond the man-made rules and the red tape, there is a God who knows you by name. Come and meet him as you've never known him before.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310344995
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 10/11/2016
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bryan Loritts is the lead pastor of Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Silicon Valley. A graduate of Cairn University (formerly Philadelphia College of Bible) and Talbot School of Theology, Bryan Loritts was recently voted one of the top thirty emerging Christian leaders. He is the co-founder of Fellowship Memphis--a multi-ethnic church where Bryan served for eleven years, helping it to grow from twenty-six people in a living room to several thousand. Pastor Bryan also served as pastor for preaching and mission at Trinity Grace Church in New York City, and is the author of several books. He is the President of the Kainos Movement, an organization aimed at establishing the multi-ethnic church in America as the new normal, and sits on the Board of Trustees for Biola University and Board of Directors for Pine Cove. He is the husband of Korie and proud father of three boys: Quentin, Myles, and Jaden. You can follow Pastor Bryan on Twitter @bcloritts.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Revolution against the Meritocracy: The Surprising Way of Jesus 13

Part 1 What Goodness Isn't

Chapter 1 Soul Songs: The Life You've Always Wanted 27

Chapter 2 My Jesus Mercy: We All Stand in Need of Grace 47

Chapter 3 A Good Impossibility: Why Man-Made Goodness Just Doesn't Cut It 63

Chapter 4 Anamorphic Pride: When Good Becomes Bad 75

Chapter 5 Of Hawks and Doves: The Transformation of Repentance 85

Part 2 Authentic Goodness

Chapter 6 The Good Solution: From Performing to Abiding 97

Chapter 7 Grilled Grace: Why Your Failure Is Never Final 111

Chapter 8 The Greatest Performance Act in History: The Resurrection Is for Us 123

Part 3 Living in and Reflecting God's Performance-Free Love

Chapter 9 The Most Difficult Math Problem in the World: Practicing Forgiveness 135

Chapter 10 The Indicator Light of the Kingdom: Practicing Generosity 153

Chapter 11 God's Got You: Practicing Peace over Worry 163

Chapter 12 The Mural of God's Performance-Free Love: Practicing Marriage 175

Chapter 13 Saved from Ourselves: A Way Out of Crushing Performance 191

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 201

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