This is so powerful a talk about justice, mercy and GRACE that I have had a number of epiphanies from it. I’ve made it easily accessible from my computer home page. Brad Wilcox facilitates an approach that is life changing. It’s 32 minutes long including 1.5 minutes of preamble (great for your commute). Enjoy… appreciate what grace is really all about! kdm (available also in print at this same link)
“But the older I get, and the more I understand this wonderful plan of redemption, the more I realize that in the final judgment it will not be the unrepentant sinner begging Jesus, “Let me stay.” No, he will probably be saying, “Get me out of here!” Knowing Christ’s character, I believe that if anyone is going to be begging on that occasion, it would probably be Jesus begging the unrepentant sinner, “Please, choose to stay. Please, use my Atonement—not just to be cleansed but to be changed so that you want to stay.”
The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can go home but that—miraculously—we can feel at home there. If Christ did not require faith and repentance, then there would be no desire to change. Think of your friends and family members who have chosen to live without faith and without repentance. They don’t want to change. They are not trying to abandon sin and become comfortable with God. Rather, they are trying to abandon God and become comfortable with sin.” link My Grace is Sufficient by Brad Wilcox
