Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

We have to help our churches understand what grace is. Many Christians have the mistaken notion that grace is a variety of Christian niceness or tolerance. Even a cursory reading of Paul’s letter to the Galatians ought to dismiss such superficial ideas. Grace can result in niceness, but in fact is not itself niceness. Some think that grace means “n

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I do not want true believers to doubt their salvation as they read this book. In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us. Each of us has lukewarm elements and practices in our life; therein lies the senseless, extravagant grace of it all. The Scriptures demonstrate clearly that there is room for our failure and sin in

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