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 MORE THAN A "FINE-TUNING" IS NEEDED

The prevailing cultural mindset of our day would have you actually believe that all you need in your life is some "fine-tuning" because there's nothing really that broken in you.

It's a well-crafted lie and appeals to a gangrenous pride that has infected humanity since Adam and Eve blamed God for their own rebellious folly and its lasting effect on all of humanity.

Every philosophical system, every religious system, every person when left to their own thought in isolation admits that something is wrong. Things are not what they should be relationally, nationally, emotionally, physically, psychologically, politically, etc.

People, we do not need a "fine-tuning". When something is dead, it doesn't need another coat of makeup to spruce it up. What humanity needs is a new heart, a new life to replace the internal, spiritual death that continues to mar, divide, destroy and deceive. 

What is broken is incapable of fixing itself. It needs help from outside itself. God knows that and has done what is necessary for all humanity to be restored in perfect relationship with the One in Whom Life is found. God has already done what was eternally impossible for us to even contemplate. Jesus Christ took into Himself the sum-total death of the human race brought on by sin and conquered it as evidenced by His Resurrection from the dead. 

We can now receive forgiveness for our true moral guilt, receive new hearts and a new spirit for He will come and live out His life in us by the Holy Spirit.

You don't need tweaking. You need the power of a New Life. Believe what God has done for you. Receive His grace. Become fully human again. There is no other way.




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