Let’s Not Forget the Power of Grace

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One of our church’s core values is:

We will do church graciously.

  • We remember that we are constantly & desperately in need of God’s grace so we will seek to extend that same grace to others whether in the right or the wrong or the gray.


I, personally, feel like this needs to be a core value for every Christian because grace is not how we are defined and gracious is not how we are seen. Our current age of “cancel culture,” “leave loud,” and “public square stake-burning” are all based upon the subjective standard of what is culturally/personally accepted as right or not. Not sure about you, but to me, it seems like Christians are caught up in this more than ever.

Fellow Christian, you need to remember, whatever sin or carnal liberty you are justifying in your life (e.g., idolatry, excessiveness, lust, hate), someone else will call out and condemn. Likewise, whatever sin you call out and condemn in someone’s life, they will justify it as you do yours. (That’s all called hypocrisy, by the way.)

This is exactly why Apostle Paul wrote what he did to the church in Romans 6:14 (CSB),

“For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.”

Not to be mistaken, grace doesn’t justify sin; it fully recognizes it and pardons it, undeservedly—hence, what makes it grace. (Reread & comprehend that slowly).

Christians are people who have experienced unfathomable grace from God, and now we exist under grace and are to be conduits of this grace to others so that they may come to personally experience it as we have in Christ. We don’t respond to one another or others how the culture does or demands. Any condition added to grace is no longer grace; it’s law.

Grace is our most powerful, practical instrumentation of discipleship toward believers and unbelievers. It’s the Potter’s wheel upon which He molds His redeemed children into Christlikeness. Never discount the grace of God in your own life or someone else’s.

Let’s change the narrative and be seen and defined as God’s people of grace.

Christopher B. Davisgrace, Christians, Christian exampleComment