Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.