Jonathan Smith

“And so when Paul says in Ephesians, “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness,” the assumption and understanding is that we are going to continue to come up short in our efforts to walk out our new identity in Christ, but because of Jesus, we will be fully redeemed and again declared “good.”
― Carl Thomas, When Shame Gets Real: A new way to talk about sex, porn, and masturbation