The hardest thing I have found in life is to preach Grace. All of the things that other people find so easy are hard for me. Here's the thing, for the first nineteen years of my life I never heard any grace, any Gospel. I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church that was really not bad. I have been around the block a time or two where churches are concerned and this one was not bad.
Jon, I love how you emphasize the need to focus on Grace rather than Law. I love that you ask us to take time to understand the Story, and to understand human story. "The whole matter is in the details and the reasoning and not the mere facts."
I'm from Savannah, I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church too. We have a lot in common.
Glad you enjoyed it Blair. For so much of my life, I only heard Law no matter what anyone said to me I only heard, 'Get it right and you get paid. Get it wrong and you get kicked.'. The difficult matter of how to not only see something else but say in a way that people can hear, 'God has laid down His arms, the war only continues because you insist on fighting.' is the greatest task that any believer can work on.
Intro to Finding Grace
Jon, I love how you emphasize the need to focus on Grace rather than Law. I love that you ask us to take time to understand the Story, and to understand human story. "The whole matter is in the details and the reasoning and not the mere facts."
I'm from Savannah, I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church too. We have a lot in common.
Glad you enjoyed it Blair. For so much of my life, I only heard Law no matter what anyone said to me I only heard, 'Get it right and you get paid. Get it wrong and you get kicked.'. The difficult matter of how to not only see something else but say in a way that people can hear, 'God has laid down His arms, the war only continues because you insist on fighting.' is the greatest task that any believer can work on.