I also knew that it had to have something to do with the radical, free
grace of God in Jesus Christ.
Our worship and life together is guided by our belief in the saving
grace of God through Jesus Christ along with the core values of our congregation.
Throughout the book, Capon presents a view of grace, the universal forgiveness of all sins, and the presence of Christ in everybody at all times which is contrary to most of what is taught and believed in most churches today, but which seems to be closer to the radical
grace of God which is presented in the both the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
I have been a proponent of the radical
free grace of God for about fifteen years now, by which we get eternal life as a completely free gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have eternal life.
I'm an easy going Man with a vision and mission to achieve all my goals in life by the
special grace of God Amen.
Joel — You should assume that your soul needs to be saved because you are in essence turning your back on the God that created you by saying — I don't believe in you and I don't need you — So when you die and you no longer have the
amazing grace of God that keeps us all alive here on earth and provides for all of your needs (whether you acknowledge Him or not).
That's why I don't worry too much about the details while having a firm Faith and understanding of the redemptive
Grace of God Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
This
justifying grace of God frees us from the enslaving powers of death, from the merely external demands of the law and the world.
For it is in our very being, created in God's image, to reflect the
divine grace of God in our relationships.
Since so many people are caught up today in some form of works - based, guilt - based, performance - based religion, the outrageous, shocking,
scandalous grace of God is a nuclear bomb that demolished everything you think you know about God and following Jesus, but at the same time, rebuilds and regrows everything into a new relationship with God built on love, joy, and freedom.
Having preached the
sovereign grace of God — grace for a Syrian army officer or a poor pagan woman at Zarephath — Jesus demonstrates that he is free even from the community that professes to be people of the Book.
* By feeding, quenching, healing, clothing, housing, including and visiting — being here and now the unrestrained love and
unconditional grace of God;
If you can't share a story of the
healing grace of God then you'll probably serve the Kingdom wonderfully in some other manner!
Goose Creek, SC About Blog Our vision to connect people to the
transforming grace of God will be accomplished: * by extending grace to one another and deepening both our appreciation for our visitors and our compassion for the unchurched.
Our eyes will find each other and remind each other, and by the
outrageous grace of God, there is abundantly enough time to make our lives whisper the answer to every single person's question:
May the knowledge of the love and
grace of God sink from my head down into my heart so that it flows out of my hands, my mouth, my ears, and my eyes so that this body becomes the body of Christ in the world.
What we call salvation or justification is given to man, the creature and sinner, only through the free and
undeserved grace of God, that is through God's free self - revelation in Jesus, the crucified and the risen Christ.
But it does require the
supernatural grace of God to live twenty - four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.
I am a man in desperate need of grace, and have been blessed to know the all -
sufficient Grace of God in Christ Jesus my Savior.
People who believe in the free
grace of God also need to develop a vision for the future about planting churches.
``... In these pages there is room for sacred doubting and holy tantrums because ultimately the love and
grace of God permits us all that room.»
The danger is this: self - examination may spawn attempts at self - improvement, with the result that looking at self replaces looking to God, and small measures of merit replace the
immeasurable grace of God.
This does not stop them being evil, however, it merely testifies to the
good grace of God.)
All praise of the objective dignity of the work of justified man can only be a praise of the truly
creative grace of God.
All of this discussion will revolve around what the Scripture says, rather than on human or religious tradition, and ultimately, the entire discussion is for the glory of God as I seek to help others see the
radiating grace of God in the face of Jesus Christ as He died on the cross for the sins of the whole world.
As in the story of Jacob's wrestle with the angel, it is the perilous test that the wanderer must pass before he enjoys the
final grace of God.
Of course, evangelism is important, but the
wonderful grace of God is too sweet to be crumpled up into a hollow, cold question.
The «theological life» in the title does not refer to the life lived by theologians, although theologians too, by the
extraordinary grace of God, can also live the theological life.
As Barth suggests, «The aim of the Sabbath commandment is that man shall give and allow the
omnipotent grace of God to have the first and last word at every point.
It's not God doing some and you doing some or God saving you, but you keeping yourself saved which is a works based salvation which is false teaching denying the
marvelous grace of God!
Paul dreamed that the delivery of this offering would lead the Jewish Christians to long for their Gentile brothers and sisters, to pray for them because of the
surpassing grace of God that they could now see had been given to them (2 Cor.