It's time to build a happier,
more gracious life.
Not exact matches
It is possible to
live now in this way, and where people do so, God's
gracious presence is already a reality, although the confidence is that
more and
more people will come to
live in this way.
This has all sorts of implications for how we think and act and
live, yet is much
more vulnerable,
more gracious and grateful than what our religions generally deliver.
Yet
More enters this
gracious new
life less because he has sought it than because it has claimed him willy - nilly.
We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human
life was taken and made into the instrument for the
gracious divine operation; in
more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.
An alternative view, held by some who are a bit
more gracious, is that the final three soils represent Christians because they at least have
life.
But we can probably move toward a
more gracious stance than we currently
live, and seek to reveal some of God's grace to this world.
«The Presbytery of Springfield, sitting at Cambridge, in the County of Bourbon, being through a
gracious Providence in
more than ordinary bodily health, growing in strength and size daily, and in perfect soundness and composure of mind; but knowing that it is appointed for all delegated bodies once to die, and considering that the
life of every such body is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling.
While at first glance this is a
more liberal,
gracious position, in another way of considering it, virtually any persistent sin could be considered an eternal sin, if not completely overcome by the end of one's
life.
So much of our theology must be held ever so lightly... this not only leads to
more gracious and humble
living, but also helps us when / if our theology changes.
Not the Hale - Bopp Comet, not invaders from space, not Clinton as King Belshazzar redux, not wars or rumors of war, but instead the
gracious and patient hand that reaches out to halt the ax, the merciful gesture woven into the fabric of
life that stays all that would give up on the barren and the broken, the merciful voice that says, «Let's give this hopeless case one
more year.
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