Grace The Controversy Part - 3 / #39

Summary:

This controversy over grace needs to change. Without a real experience with grace, it’s very hard to grasp the depth of love that our Father has for us. We don’t have to work for it, or do anything to earn it. Just as the Bible says that God is love, God is also grace, a depth of which goes beyond words.

Show Notes:

• It’s easy to be on opposite sides, yelling about how “they” are wrong, which has been happening in the Body of Christ too long. Until these two opposing sides can come to the table, discuss and be open to one another, not much is going to change.

• There is a lack of understanding about Grace, because there are so many Christians who think that Grace and the law should go together. These two elements don’t mix. In most cases, those teaching a mixture of law and grace aren’t teaching grace at all.

• Critics argue that cheap grace implies receiving God’s forgiveness without a corresponding transformation in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our morals. They have a point, if those who call themselves grace people are not changing and becoming what God whats them to be.

• True grace brings discipleship and a drive to follow Jesus, even at great personal cost. It gives those walking in it a consciousness of sin and of the consequences that can occur. It promotes repentance and living in a moral and ethical way. True grace should make you want to walk, think and act differently.

• You can’t truly teach something that you have not experienced. For those who teach and preach out of what they think they know, without a corresponding experience, they are producing that same lack of understanding and experience to all who you speak to. Don’t contaminate others with a wrong heart.

Quotes:

• Grace is God’s supernatural ability to do everything and anything needed in your life to help you be like Jesus, and to perfectly live out the life He has purposed for you.

• A proper understanding of grace always leads to less sin, never more.

• I get asked if we have to repent for every sin. I would say “no,” because I can show you scripture after scripture where it says that you have been washed, sanctified, justified and forgiven. We have already been forgiven. But if you still believe that you have to ask for forgiveness, go ahead.

• Your understanding of grace is a gift to be treasured and stewarded with wisdom and maturity. It’s not something you’ve earned or even deserved.

• You teach what you know, but you impart who you are.

Takeaways:

God’s grace goes way beyond anything we can understand up to this point. The grace of God is what keeps us alive, and gives us a heart beat and brain wave. It fact, it the very essence of our existence.