Matt Chandler at #2014Liberate Conference
Matt Chandler was up first at Liberate 2014. His message was from Romans 8. "The older I get, the busier life gets." The tendency, if I am not careful, is to take my relationship with Christ and add it on to my busy schedule rather than let it be the defining relationship. If God is an add on, then we are saying we are own god. How does our relationship with God function and work? His focus: those he called If you got saved by saying the prayer, we are witches. God was wooing me, but it was not because I was trying to get better. It was when I was at my worst. To those he called, he also justified. We as a culture should get this doctrine. We love the law. Justification means to be pardoned. Galatians 2:15. Our story is not I helped myself. I pulled myself up by my bootstraps. The King has banged the gavel and pardoned our past, present, and future sins. If you don't get justification, you will run from God not ru...