Saving the Saved, Bryan Loritts
Saving the Saved, Bryan Loritts
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Saving the Saved
How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love

Author: Bryan Loritts

Narrator: Charles Ray

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 07/25/2023

Synopsis

White-knuckling can never get you where you want to go. But grace can.You already know because you’ve tried: repeated attempts to earn God’s love and approval get you nowhere and leave you exhausted. When performance taints our relationship with him, the Christian life can turn into an unholy hustle. It was never meant to be like this.In Saving the Saved, Pastor Bryan Loritts reveals the astonishing truth that God doesn’t want your spiritual scorekeeping. He simply wants your surrender. The punchline of the gospel of Matthew is just that—a message of grace and performance-free love to do-good, try-harder Jews who thought they had to earn their way into God’s favor. It’s an ancient message, yet it can be a lifeline to us today as we live in a world of performance metrics. Just as Matthew wrote to the Jews in his gospel, we were never meant to flounder under the pressures and anxieties of show Christianity. Make no mistake: we are called to live in obedience, but Jesus wants us to save us from the illusion that our actions can ever earn God’s acceptance of us.In Pastor Bryan’s relevant, uncompromising style, Saving the Saved proclaims the good news that once the pressure is off to perform, we are free to abide. Beyond the man-made rules and the red tape, there is a God who knows you by name. Come and meet him as you’ve never known him before.

About Bryan Loritts

Bryan Loritts is the lead pastor of Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Silicon Valley. A graduate of Cairn University (formerly Philadelphia College of Bible) and Talbot School of Theology, Bryan Loritts was recently voted one of the top thirty emerging Christian leaders. He is the co-founder of Fellowship Memphis—a multi-ethnic church where Bryan served for eleven years, helping it to grow from twenty-six people in a living room to several thousand. Pastor Bryan also served as pastor for preaching and mission at Trinity Grace Church in New York City, and is the author of several books. He is the President of the Kainos Movement, an organization aimed at establishing the multi-ethnic church in America as the new normal, and sits on the Board of Trustees for Biola University and Board of Directors for Pine Cove.  He is the husband of Korie and proud father of three boys: Quentin, Myles, and Jaden. You can follow Pastor Bryan on Twitter @bcloritts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chrys Jones on September 21, 2016

Saving The Saved by Bryan Loritts Covers Matter Every now and then, as a reader, I stumble across a book that just piques my interest. Saving the Saved by Brian Lorrits was one of those books. The title and subtitle immediately jumped out at me, as did the excellent cover art (you can't judge a book b......more

Goodreads review by Luke on May 05, 2018

As someone who grew up in the church, went to bible school and seminary, and is now a pastor; Bryan’s words were a perfect reminder that God gives us grace and love, not because we proved ourselves to Him, but because He loves us.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 25, 2022

This book honestly had a next level use of illustrations, word pictures, and stories to describe different aspects of Gods love. One of my favorites came from him talking about Grace: “(grace is like a rear view mirror) our sin isn’t meant to be stared at. You glance at rear view mirrors because the......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 17, 2016

[Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Zondervan Press. All thoughts and opinions are my own.] This is a book that without reading is easy to condemn too harshly. Upon beginning to read this book I found a lot to dislike about it. Its continual harping on the meritocracy and its adv......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 04, 2019

Performance free love I thought the book was a good reminder about God’s performance free love for us. But how do you get there? The author had some good humor in it and was very honest with his readers. However it didn’t really describe on how to get from striving to an abiding relationship with Jes......more

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