Leader, It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This!
For by grace you have been saved through faith.
And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9)
“It doesn’t get any better than this!”
“It” is Christianity—that wondrous offer of God’s life, eternal life, to every man, woman, boy and girl in the history of humanity.
The Bible clearly teaches that God’s eternal plan to rescue creation from sin centers on the focus of His love and care: humanity. His redemptive touch on human life is His only strategy. As redeemed individuals gather into redeemed communities that live out the potential of His healing touch, they will manifest His glory to the universe.
The only touch point between God and humanity is the Person of His Son, Jesus Christ, whose death and resurrection released God’s love, making it available to all who will receive it.
It doesn’t get better than “this”!
“This” is grace—that breathtaking decision of God to risk the entire future of creation on humanity’s willingness to trust in Him.
Jesus Christ clearly taught that only those who trust in Him will receive God’s life, eternal life. All who refuse to trust in Him and reject His love by insisting that God count their works as worthy will not receive this love.
The only way to receive eternal life is by grace through faith.
The only way to experience the fullness of eternal life in this world and the next is by grace through faith.
And It Doesn’t Get Any Better...
Incredibly, from the very beginning, the church has tried to bully people into believing that there is something better than grace!
Church history clearly teaches us that the primary combat zone for the God’s truth is the battlefield of grace. Religion mistrusts grace; always has, always will. Those who embrace their religious lies are trapped by their performance-based communities and doomed to lives of defeat and despair.
Only those who trust Christ gather in grace-based communities that release them to live lives only explained by His power and presence.
“It” doesn’t get better than “this”!
If “it” (Christianity) gets better than “this” (grace), then it’s no longer Christianity. It’s religion.