Here’s a piercing quote from D.A. Carson on how easily we only scratch the surface of the implications of the gospel — and so easily feel no sense of remorse about it.

I would like to buy about three dollars worth of gospel, please.

Not too much – just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I get addicted.

I don’t want so much gospel that I learn to really hate covetousness and lust.

I certainly don’t want so much that I start to love my enemies, cherish self-denial, and contemplate missionary service in some alien culture.

I want ecstasy, not repentance;

I want transcendence, not transformation.

I would like to be cherished by some nice, forgiving, broad-minded people, but I myself don’t want to love those from different races – especially if they smell.

I would like enough gospel to make my family secure and my children well behaved, but not so much that I find my ambitions redirected or my giving too greatly enlarged.

I would like about three dollars worth of the gospel, please.

(Basics for Believers: An Exposition of Philippians, pp. 12-13)

May God help us to be and to make disciples who learn to apply the gospel to every aspect of our lives deeply.

(HT: Oversight of Souls)