Righteousness (5)
  1. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  2. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  3. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  4. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  5. In the Church, the cry is, “He loves,” and it is that message which transforms our worldviews from taking to giving, from radical individualism to trans-demographic inclusivism, from selfishness to selflessness, from “tolerate my rights” to “loving rightly together.”