From Chuck Colson's book, Loving God --
"We must understand that our goal as believers is to seek what we can do to please God, not what He can do for us.
True Christian maturity -- holiness, sanctification -- is God-centered.
So-called 'victorious Christian living' is self-centered.
As Jerry Bridges puts it: 'It's time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated, we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedient and disobedient.'"
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