For is anything more narcissistic than to hear, “You are so loved by God that if you were the only person in the world, he would have died just for you?” 7 This is a dangerous half truth, and like any half truth, it obscures something critical. You are so loved by God, but God didn’t die just for you: “God so loved the world” (John 3:16), and God so loves the church, “which he bought with his own blood” (Acts 20:28 NIV). But when we make the gospel primarily about us as individuals and the benefits it brings us, is it so surprising that the church comes across as an unnecessary add-on, as
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