Holy love

‘To not come clean about the impoverishment of our soul is to leave ourselves impoverished concerning the greatest drama of them all. Again, we will be left with what Forsyth called those “nicest, kindest people” who can run programmes but cannot make disciples because they have never known grace. In other words, our churches lose their apostolicity to the extent that they lose their instinct for the basic gospel drama. Precisely because the believers within them have never really plummeted the depths of their own depravity, so they will never experience the astonishment of sins forgiven.’ from Ian Stackhouse's book, Primitive Piety.