A moment with Jesus changed everything.

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.