The Good News has 3 inseparable messages: 1) The universal accessibility of the personal and persistent unrestrained love and
unconditional grace of God; and 2) The feeding quenching clothing healing visiting welcoming compassion and the reparative rehabilitating restorative justice of the Community; and 3) The inclusive hospitality and joyous generosity and healthy service of the Individual.
* By feeding, quenching, clothing, housing, including and visiting — being here and now the unrestrained love and
unconditional grace of God;
* By feeding, quenching, healing, clothing, housing, including and visiting — being here and now the unrestrained love and
unconditional grace of God;
Not exact matches
My two sisters are instruments
of God's
grace —
God's
unconditional, steadfast love.
* know the
grace of God to be
unconditional and boundless — my acceptance by
God requires nothing
of me.
The same kind
of thing is true for a limited atonement,
unconditional grace, total depravity, inability to forfeit salvation, etc. — in other words, in every place where classical Calvinism departs from
God's Word.
* be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which is: ----
God is
unconditional boundless
grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ----
God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each
of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness
of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom
of God.
If we are trying to revive our lives and get on track with
God, there is nothing better than a sense
of God's
unconditional acceptance, infinite love, and undying
grace.
I am attending seminary and love to study the Bible and so my enjoyment
of the Bible leads me to write about the
grace of God, the
unconditional love, and how a person can gain eternal life.
The Calvinists on the other hand have their particular bias, precedence,
of man having no inherent - free - will capacity to accept or reject
God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their ideas
of unconditional election and irresistible
grace.
I find the arguments
of some who reject
unconditional election a bit confusing when it's said that we all need prevenient
grace, but
God simply knows who will accept prevenient
grace.
I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love
of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one
of his last books before he died: «All is
Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and
unconditional love
of God in the midst
of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside
of the love and tenderness
of God in this dependency.
But because the justified are «constantly exposed to the power
of sin,» they must «constantly look to
God's
unconditional justifying
grace.»
There you can hear about the
unconditional love
of Amazing —
Grace's
god who is going to torture and burn his children for refusing to follow his one condition.
It is free and
unconditional, based solely on the
grace of God.
a
God of unrestrained love and
unconditional grace ---- I suppose Ghandi is eat at the table with Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Dr. Mengele, etc!
We can either worship a
God of war, hate and exclusion OR be in relationship with a
God of unrestrained love and
unconditional grace
Each
of us has something to offer to
God and
God has only good — unrestrained love and
unconditional grace — to constantly offer to each
of us.
Justification by
grace signifies
God's
unconditional, unmerited, radical acceptance
of the whole person:
God, the Cosmic Lover, graciously embraces not just a person's disembodied spirit but the whole fleshly self — the meanings
of which theology is only beginning to explore.
God is z Bible & Theology Topics: Arminianism, Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, Irresistible
Grace, Jacobus Arminius, John Calvin, Limited Atonement, Perseverance
of the Saints, Theology
of Salvation, Total Depravity, TULIP,
Unconditional Election
One reason is because in my preaching, teaching, and writing, I emphasize the
unconditional grace and love
of God because
of the work
of Jesus Christ.
In the case
of blasphemy, a person is not only denying who
God says He is, but mocking His character and attributes, such as
unconditional love, mercy,
grace, forgiveness, and justice.
An integral part
of the infallibility and inerrancy
of the Word
of God is the way it calls us and leads us and teaches us to be the family
of God — living here and now as children
of a
God of unrestrained love and
unconditional grace gathered as a community
of justice and compassion who are living lives
of generosity, hospitality, and service.
Because, it finally occurred to me that the
God, whom I had cursed, still held His arms around me and loved me — His
unconditional love would not allow even my own stupid, infantile rebellion stop the flow
of His amazing
grace and mercy to me as His son — guaranteed for all eternity because
of faith alone in Jesus Christ.
The first book in the new series
of devotionals for fiction lovers, 21 Days
of Grace: Stories that Celebrate
God's
Unconditional Love, released this month.
We seek to model
God's
unconditional love and
grace, while at the same time inspire the development
of a more holy character.