The reach of grace extends to our being reconciled to God through the perfect work of Christ Jesus on the cross and to our belonging to God and being His ambassadors in the world.

The Apostle Paul shows us how the Lord uses the grace of forgiveness to help us learn how to engage and grow through conflict. Specifically, we learn through conflict that 1) we are a connected people (you hurt, I hurt), 2) that in the Body of Christ, grace and truth go together (we forgive because we’ve been forgiven) and 3) we are being built into a Body that the devil is trying to destroy.

The Apostle Paul shows us how the Lord uses the grace of of affliction to reveal what's in our heart as well as what's in God's heart