Grace: do we earn it, or do we own it?
Grace is a gift...

Grace is a gift...
But we live in a culture right now where if something is right then that means everything else is wrong.
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It's not any specific behavior, or adherence to a particular doctrine, or religious ritual, or repetition of the right magic phrase that grants us the honor of a relationship with God - No, it's Jesus who makes redemption possible. This privilege is ours to accept, or to reject.
the more years I spend on this planet, the more likely I am to err on the side of grace rather than judgment. We all walk a tightrope of indecision sometimes, and if I am going to make a mistake - which is likely - then I would rather err on the side of grace.
All of these new things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and who gave us the ministry of reconciliation. In other words, God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ, by not counting people’s sins against them. He has trusted us with this message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors who…
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That is exactly where the church should be focused; celebrating Jesus, grateful to God, equipped and encouraged to be instruments of Grace.
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