Bryan Loritts'
Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love explores how a performance-based view of God's love dampens our joy, increases
our guilt, and diminishes the glory of our great God. We want a reason
to live: "You want this. I want this. That's why
we're on our way to the gym, embarking on another diet and trying with
all our might to make better moral choices". But Lorritts urges us to look to
Christ rather than the internal lawyer which seeks to push us to perform
more (and condemn us when we don’t meet our standards). This is an
important message for Christians in a day and age where our attempts to avoid liberalism
and antinomianism (anti-law) could lead us to swing the pendulum too
far. The answer to these issues is not to run to legalism and
performance, but rather to God himself seeking God's abiding love.
Lorritts utilizes Scripture and good theology to explore all the ways in which "performance" faith impacts our spiritual lives. And he's given us a must-read book in the process.
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