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Trying to understand the ununderstandable

I was speaking with one of our kids from The Bridge today and she asked for help in understanding a Scripture she had picked to share about in The Sanctuary – our weekly youth church gathering.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.

- Titus 2:11-12 (NIV)

She had an idea but was having difficulty in understanding exactly what the verse was saying. And so we began to converse about the verse’s subject: grace. Before we could speak of how exactly grace teaches us to live such lives as described, first we had to understand exactly what grace was. And so I asked what she thought. She shared her ideas about grace and we began to go back and forth on the topic. Slowly a crowd began to form around us, and many people were sharing what they thought it meant and thus how it accomplished the goal mentioned in Titus.

And so I thought it might be a fun and enlightening experiment to open the same question to you, my Internet friends. What do you think grace is, and, as result, how does it teach us to live as the Scriptures say. We’re not trying to come up with a general, simplistic answer to the question. I’m sure that we’ve all heard the easy definition that grace is “getting what you do not deserve” or “unmerited favor.” The reality is that the full magnitude of grace is greater than the vast expanse of the known universe. It’s just too big for our little human brains to fully grasp or understand holistically. But perhaps if we talk it out we might be able to understand just a little bit more about it.

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