Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love [Paperback]

Bryan Loritts is a highly gifted communicator of grace. This book can be your next step into a more grace-filled life.Bryan Loritts is one of the most thoughtful and biblical leaders I know. In Saving the Saved, he cuts to the heart of what the gospel is all about, offering good news not just to sinners but to the self-righteous as well. A freeing and engaging book.If youre a perfectionist and workaholic like me and have struggled to be embraced by grace, this is the book for you. Saving the Saved invites us to move beyond our addiction to self-reliance and swim anew in the ocean of Gods unmerited love. Bryan Loritts reminds us there is freedom from a salvation-economy of meritocracy into the marvelous gospel of grace.If youre looking for a commentary on Matthews gospel that exegetically deep dives into the theological abyss of the former tax collectors version of the life of the Man whose call led him to leave his business profession, put this book down. If youre looking for an investigative journey into the practicality and profundity of the power of pure, performance-less love, welcome to the ride!If your faith feels more like duty than joy---and no matter how much you do for God, it never seems to be enough---then this book is for you. In a fresh, relevant, and authentic style, Bryan Loritts helps those of us who are driven, performance-oriented Christians to experience the rest, freedom, and love God longs for us to share. I wish I had read this thirty years ago.Meritocracy has crept its way into our culture, our churches, and if Im honest, at times into my own life and ministry. Im so glad my friend Bryan Loritts has given you and me a biblically rooted escape from our never-ending quest to equate who we are with what we do. I need to keep rereading this book.Relatable. Fresh. Freeing. Saving the Saved is a brilliant book that reminds us of the truth that we are in need of a Savior, not a system. If you have ever felt like you cant be good enough or cl8