Scripture: Romans 2:1-16
“Inscribed on the very heart of God’s grace is the rule that we can be its recipients only if we do not resist being made
into its agents; what happens to us must be done by us. We who have been embraced by the outstretched arms of the
crucified God open our arms even for the enemies … so that together we may rejoice in the eternal embrace of the
triune God.”
Miroslav Volf
“No matter how much we give lip service to the notion of free grace and dying love, we do not like it. It is just too …
indiscriminate. It lets rotten sons and crooked tax farmers and common tarts into the kingdom, and it thumbs its nose
at really good people. And it does that, gallingly, for no more reason than the Gospel’s shabby exaltation of dumb trust
over worthy works.”
Robert Capon
“No one will leave an addiction or compulsion unless a competing passion is offered that gives a taste of what the soul
is meant to endure. Only Heaven is a big enough passion to draw us away from petty distractions and cheap addictions
of this sorry world.”
Dan Allender
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