What Makes God, God? His Grace: 2 Corinthians 12:9
2 Corinthians 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Through what lens do you view God? Do you view God through a lens of law or grace? All of us respond to God from a perspective that is either guided by a rule to which we feel obligated to adhere or a freedom by which we live in Christ based upon His work and not our own. I grew up in the church. I was born, raised, ministered in, and will probably die in the church. And yet I have lived with the tireless effort to please God because the church has conditioned me to believe that while I was saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), I needed to live a certain way, believe the right things, witness to people as often as possible, earn the notches in my belt, espouse politically conservative issues to keep the approval of God and maintain my status in His church. A moral fall, a shift in political viewpoints, or a lack of zeal for the gospel could raise questions as to the a...