The Unlimited Grace We Often Limit
There’s a quiet tragedy happening in the church today, and it doesn’t happen in a single dramatic moment. It happens in whispered doubts, in conditional acceptance, in the small ways we domesticate the wild, scandalous love of God. The Grace We Water Down How often do we water down the grace of God? More often than we’d like to admit. We water it down when we add footnotes to forgiveness. “Yes, God forgives… but surely not that sin.” We dilute it when we create hierarchies of worthiness, placing ourselves just a rung or two above those we deem less deserving. We thin it out when we treat grace like a substance with limited supply, as if God might run out if we’re too generous with others. The Apostle Paul faced this same temptation in the early church. In Galatians , he confronted believers who wanted to add requirements to grace— circumcision , dietary laws , cultural practices. They couldn’t accept that grace alone was sufficient. He wrote with urgency: “You who ar...
