JOHN: THE GOSPEL OF BELIEF - It is easy to confuse a gracious God with a heavenly genie. It’s easy to measure Christianity by how many of your problems it solves while leaving your moral choices totally in your own hands, like God just pays your Visa bill and lets you keep spending as you like. Christianity doesn’t work that way, but that’s not because Christianity doesn’t work. It’s because what you’re trying to do with God’s grace has nothing whatsoever to do with Biblical Christianity.