""Grace. ""It's what we crave most when our guilt is exposed.
It's the very thing we are hesitant to extend when we are
confronted with the guilt of others--especially when their guilt
has robbed us of something we consider valuable."""
"Therein is the struggle, the struggle for grace. It's this
struggle that makes grace more story than doctrine. It's the
struggle that reminds us that grace is bigger than compassion or
forgiveness. That struggle is the context for both. When we are on
the receiving end, grace is refreshing. When it is required of us,
it is often disturbing. But when correctly applied, it seems to
solve just about everything. This struggle is not new; it has been
going on since the beginning.""
"--Andy Stanley"
We find in the pages of Scripture that the stories found there
often mirror our own stories, and that we too need the very thing
we do not deserve: "the grace of God."
From the beginning, the church has had an uneasy relationship
with grace. The gravitational pull is always toward graceless
religion. The odd thing is that when you read the New Testament,
the only thing Jesus stood against consistently was graceless
religion. The only group he attacked relentlessly was graceless
religious leaders.
Even now as you think about grace, there might be a little voice
in your head whispering, ""It can't be that easy ""
"What about obedience?"
"What about disobedience?"
"What about repeated misbehavior?"
"What about bad habits?"
"What about justice?"
"What about repentance?"
It's this tension that makes grace so slippery. But that's the
beauty and the truth of grace. We don't deserve it. We can't earn
it. It can't be qualified. But God gives it to us anyway because he
loves us unconditionally.
The story of grace is your story. And as you are about to
discover grace plays a larger role than you imagine.
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