Sometimes it helps to reexamine something that is taken for granted. The word ‘grace’ is used frequently in Christian circles. Even so, do we all have a shared understanding of what it means? How does the concept correspond to, say, justice? Or mercy? How should we speak about grace in light of judgment, or rather, what is the relationship between grace and judgment?

These are things that believers are expected to understand. Indeed, if one doesn’t understand what grace is, then how exactly are we to receive it? Can we even receive it if we don’t understand what it is in a basic sense?

This isn’t a heady sermon. It is practical and immediate to our daily lives, how we understand ourselves, how we engage in right relationship with God and others.

Nowhere in this message is any new doctrine. It should reflect exactly what is found throughout the Bible, as well as the wellspring of doctrinal heritage on which we can and should draw.

May this be a blessing to you.

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