GRACE
Philip Yancey in his book "What's So Amazing About Grace " says
"I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life....a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval. In the words of Helmut Thielicke, .... the devil succeeds in laying his cuckoo eggs in a pious nest.......I came to see that the image of God I had been raised with was woefully incomplete...... Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people.......any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God. I yearn for the church to become a nourishing culture of that grace."
"I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life....a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval. In the words of Helmut Thielicke, .... the devil succeeds in laying his cuckoo eggs in a pious nest.......I came to see that the image of God I had been raised with was woefully incomplete...... Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people.......any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God. I yearn for the church to become a nourishing culture of that grace."
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HAS church been a nourishing culture to thrive in? Up for debate!
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