Teachings

Up to this point, we learned about God’s original intention for His creation, the fall, sin, grace as God’s divine assistance, and regeneration as God’s renewal process, allowing man to respond and align with His calling. This brings us to repentance. Now, there are some schools of thought where faith comes before repentance, which I do believe can occur. This is because God can do whatever He wants, and I do not have a monopoly on truth.

Up to this point we learned about God’s original intention for his creation, the fall, and sin. Last week we learned about grace as God’s divine assistance. Not just unmerited favor but, some type of action done by God to assist us with moving from one place to another or to accomplish something. We have learned about these things in the scope of Jesus’ redemptive work and the process of atonement. Lazarus of Bethany has been a great help in revealing these truths to us, and

Today we continue our study on the atonement of Christ and how the account of Lazarus of Bethany demonstrates certain truths of this process. Today we are going to talk about grace, but not in the traditional “unmerited favor” way that we often hear taught. We are going to get at the essence of what grace truly is and how it is distinct from other theological constructs like mercy, for example. I think we often use mercy and grace together and interchangeably sometimes, but t