While on my trip to Vegas this past week, I read Clark's Recovering the Reformed Confession. On page 41 he responds to covenant moralism (AKA Federal Vision teaching) saying, "...the coventnat moralists flatten out the tension between our justification and our sanctification by moving toward the old medieval and Roman dosctrine of justification by sanctification so that God is said to justify the godly" (underscore mine).
In hanging around non-Christians in Vegas I thought about what a poor example of a Christian I can be. Among other things, I look at how dull I am, how uninteresting. Who would ever want to be like me? But I also realized that I am not a Christian because I am good - I'm a Christian because I am not good. I'm not healthy; I'm sick and in need of a physician (Matt. 9:12).
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