Sentences with phrase «much grace toward»

Great What if we showed as much grace toward believers and unbelievers as God shows toward us?

Not exact matches

Are we so driven by our revulsion toward that which caused us so much pain that we're willing to accept and applaud such emotional venting without even offering the most elemental grace to the accused?

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

I know that I too fail to live in much grace and love toward others on a day - to - day basis.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

But I also fear that the «user - friendly» style of much contemporary religion may be sliding toward cheap grace.