Jesus and nothing else
‘Crucial to a life of Jesus-shaped spirituality is the place of Jesus as the one sufficient Mediator between God and humanity, in contrast to relying on religious institutions and rituals that insist on occupying the stage with Jesus. The radical nature of believing “Jesus = salvation” and “Salvation = Jesus + nothing” becomes clearer as we have to move through a culture where the church has attempted to replace Jesus as our connection to God.
It is not the place of a church to claim that Jesus has outsourced any portion of the responsibility four our standing or relationship with God. Whatever we mean by church membership (which I am in favor of, generally) or whatever the relative importance of church ministries, there is not a single place where the church can do more than simply point to Jesus as the complete Source of salvatuon. Once the church begins speaking of itself as “necessary”, it has overstepped.
The only necessary things are what Jesus gives freely and graciously. The only basis for salvation is Jesus and his perfect life, death, and resurrection. He is the one assurance.’
-Michael Spencer, Mere Churchanity, pg 102
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