Grace isn’t fair. It’s reckless and lavish and handed out freely to those who don’t deserve a thing.
The Protestant milieu was pervaded with the announcement that God and God alone is the active agent in the salvation of sinners.
Just like the aunties in Arsenic and Lace, we want so badly to believe in the goodness of our hearts.

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Reading, understanding, and studying Scripture is a life-long process of contemplation in conversation with others.
We must be careful in how we use Bible verses to establish Scriptural truth both to others and to ourselves.
God’s word is creative in both the imaginative sense and the constructive sense. It brings things into existence and displays new ideas, images, and concepts we did not previously perceive.
A famous saying of Augustine (echoing Jesus in Luke 24:44) perhaps puts it best, “The New Testament lies concealed in the Old, the Old lies revealed in the New.”