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Balance - A message on Grace at NVCL


What do you do with the Christian Doctrine of Grace?


This is an opportunity for you to "push back" on this weekend's message. What are you thinking about? Struggling with? Excited about...when you think about God's Grace in your life? I would invite you to wrestle with the following questions...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed the message this weekend. One thing I wanted to throw out is that I struggle with the idea of grace being something that God uses to stop us from hitting the bottom - as your illustration showed the rope not allowing us to hit the ground.
I would picture it more like our choices allow us to fall and hit the ground - sometimes very hard, and sometimes very, very painfully.
I think grace is God lifting us up after the fall and restoring and healing what we broke when we fell.

The really hard part is when we are lying there broken, being able to look up and accept God's hand up as he reaches for us.

I think hitting the bottom is essential in order to truly understand how powerful and wonderful God's grace really is.

I don't have a Biblical basis for my little commentary, but that has been my personal experience.

Anonymous said...

I was unable to come to service this weekend. I do, however, have some thoughts on grace. In particular, it has been huge for me this year to step back from childhood teachings and drawn illustrations of Jesus and His sacrafice on the cross, and enter into the reality that He, His life here, His sacrafice for me, His Resurrection... all that is an actual part of history as real as Abraham Linclon was President.
We can never do justice the Good News. I have been, am, and will forever be forgiven- that's truth, it's history, it's recorded in the Holy Bible as real as an encyclopedia.
But more important, it's my future, my hope, my reverence to God for grace that, not by my own, but by Him I am 100% saved!