The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.