God's grace

Grace is the first word in our name because it best describes our individual and collective journey to God in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. “Rather, we believe that by the grace of the Lord Jesus we are saved, even as they also” (Acts 15:11). We are "justified without merit by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:24). By grace alone God (through Christ) allows us to share in his own righteousness. The Bible consistently teaches us that the message of faith is a message of God's grace (Acts 1 Cor4,3; 20,24; 20,32).

The basis of God's relationship with man has always been grace and truth. While the law was an expression of these values, God's grace itself found full expression through Jesus Christ. By the grace of God we are saved only by Jesus Christ and not by keeping the law. The law by which every man is damned is not God's last word for us. His last word for us is Jesus. He is the perfect and personal revelation of God's grace and truth that he freely gave to humanity.

Our condemnation under the law is just and just. We do not achieve righteous behavior of our own accord, for God is not a prisoner of his own laws and legalities. God in us works in divine freedom according to his will. His will is defined by grace and redemption. The apostle Paul writes: “I do not throw away the grace of God; for if righteousness is by the law, Christ died in vain” (Galatians 2:21). Paul describes the grace of God as the only alternative that he does not want to throw away. Grace is not a thing to be weighed and measured and bartered. Grace is the living goodness of God, through which He goes after and transforms the human heart and mind. In his letter to the church in Rome, Paul writes that the only thing we are trying to achieve through our own effort is the wages of sin, which is death itself. That's the bad news. But there is also a particularly good one, because “the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:24). Jesus is the grace of God. He is God's salvation freely given for all people.