I mentioned this at church on Sunday in relation to God’s pattern of having us speak the gospel to one another.
Jin and I were chatting after morning church about how critical it is that gospelling one another doesn’t become code for telling one another what works we should do. We mustn’t assume forgiveness in Jesus and focus on the developing to-change lists for one another. (Especially since we have such capacity to forget and disbelieve grace.)
Here’s the quote Tim Chester posted on his blog:
…a quote on the importance of speaking the truth to one another in community. Christians are persons who no longer seek their salvation, their deliverance, their justification in themselves, but in Jesus Christ alone. They know that God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces them guilty, even when they feel nothing of their own guilt, and that God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces them free and righteous, even when they feel nothing of their own righteousness … The Christ in their own hearts is weaker than the Christ in the word of other Christians. Their own hearts are uncertain; those of their brothers and sisters are sure. At the same time, this also clarifies that the goal of all Christian community is to encounter one another as bringers of the message of salvation.’ 
