All Christians are familiar with the word grace, but how many of us understand grace? What it is? How does it work? The biggest question is does the grace of God eliminate our effort or does it enable effort? American Christianity has put such an emphasis on justification by grace through faith that many do not know that the grace that justifies is also the grace that sanctifies. The grace that sanctifies enables good works, "which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”