The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.