Grace!

I go to a very unique church.  Instead of the lead pastor preaching every Sunday morning or even most of the time, I've heard him once.  We have a rotation of speakers that stick to the same theme, for instance we are going through 1 Peter right now.  Before that we were in Nehemiah.  It's the most fun I've had in church in my entire life...well other than when I'm teaching.

One of the speakers is an author himself (long before me) named John Lynch.  I taught his daughter at NCS when she was in high school and I reference his book True Faced in Opportunity Jesus.  Well, I was going to write a little blurb about grace today when I saw the TrueFaced twitter link to his blog.  It's short and sweet and to the point so I share it with you all.

"Until we actually believe this is what God wants for us, we’ll hedge our bets. We’ll see grace as a garnish; or a spice, a condiment, like paprika, to be sprinkled sparingly. We’ll constantly keep using that same lame cliché that it must be balanced with something else. I always sigh at that line. It’s like saying you must balance your intake of air with something else. If all truth is in grace (and it is) and all grace in truth (and it is), then we can probably let go of that ridiculous, falsely religious, nonsensical parody of truth."

Amen!