# Redemption ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41P95UwnAZL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Mike Wilkerson]] - Full Title: Redemption - Category: #books ## Highlights - Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF), ([Location 218](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=218)) - sometimes these issue-specific groups had the unfortunate side effect of reinforcing a participant’s issue-based identity, instead of helping him throw off false identities and embrace his identity in Christ. So Christians seeking help to live free from pornography might learn that, actually, they were porn addicts, something they would have to live with and manage, something their spouses would have to live with and accommodate. ([Location 233](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=233)) - our recovery group structure reinforced issue-identity instead of Christ-identity. ([Location 238](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=238)) - everyone sins and everyone suffers. It happens in different ways, at different levels of severity, and with varying consequences. So everyone needs to be redeemed by Jesus and grow in one’s identity in Christ. ([Location 239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=239)) - Details on Redemption Groups and resources for running your own are available at http://www.marshillchurch.org/redemption. ([Location 274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=274)) - inaugurated eschatology: Jesus inaugurated his kingdom, and in him, a new creation has begun; yet the future holds the consummation of his kingdom and the perfection of all creation, including you and me. ([Location 619](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=619)) - In the meantime, we live in a state of “already-and-not-yet.” We already enjoy some of the benefits of the new creation, but we do not yet know the full freedom of perfection. For that we must wait eagerly. Between now and then, there is a process of renewal. ([Location 621](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=621)) - The wilderness is an already-and-not-yet kind of place: the Israelites were already free from slavery, but they were not yet home. ([Location 627](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=627)) - The Puritan preacher Thomas Chalmers, in his sermon The Expulsive Power of a New Affection, said that desires for God and desires for sin cannot coexist in the human heart. They are two opposing “affections”—one will always push out the other. So, he said, “the only way to dispossess [the heart] of an old affection, is by the expulsive power of a new one” (see Gal. 5:16–17).70 You can’t just “stop it,” because the it is always more than behavior. It is always rooted in your affections, in what you love—what you worship. Chalmers points the way forward: we worshiped our way into this mess, and by God’s grace, we’ll worship our way out.71 ([Location 640](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=640)) - Lane, Timothy S., and Paul David Tripp. How People Change. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2008. This book lays a basic foundation for gospel-based life change (progressive sanctification). ([Location 654](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004IEAJLY&location=654))