By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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.
Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.
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.
The Gospel has never changed.