I love learning new things and so far reading One Way Love by Tullian Tchividjian, grace has been one thing that has been made plain to me. Most of the books I end up reading are extremely challenging and require intense thinking; although, there is nothing wrong with critical thinking, it is relaxing to sit down and feel like you are talking with the author. Something that I have had a tough time understanding is the true meaning of grace. A sentence that stuck out to me is, “Grace is a love that has nothing to do with you, the beloved. It has everything to do with the lover” (OWL pg. 32). There is absolutely nothing that I can do to try to earn grace which is still mind blowing because it is a free gift. This stuck out me to me because I
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In today’s society and culture we want to work for everything, and we feel that if we want to receive something we must do this and that. In general, most people have a hard time accepting a free gift, because they feel undeserving. God’s grace is a free gift and since there is no checklist for me to complete, I continually stand in awe of God and His grace. This is why the book is called, One Way Love, because even in our selfish and wicked ways the Lord has given us the greatest gift of all. To continue on in my last few thoughts: God’s grace is tough for us to fully understand grace because in order to receive grace we should be willing to give up control. I am the type of person who most of the time am unwilling to give control to someone else because I feel as if I am the only one who can truly control the situation. I do not feel as if I fully understand this concept of giving up control but I have …show more content…
Lately something that has been heavy on my heart is telling people about the danger or self-salvation. “When we feel this weight of judgement against us, we all tend to slip into the slavery of self-salvation: trying to appease the judge (friends, parents, spouse, ourselves) with hard work, good behavior, getting better, achievement, losing weight, and so on” (OWL pg. 70). There have been countless times when I have found myself trying to save myself and it did not work out for me. This is one thing that has been slowly changing in my life, because here at the leadership college we learn to lead and if we are constantly thinking about how to save ourselves, we will not be able to lead individuals who are either non-believers or struggling believers. I want to be the person to put into action the words that I speak out loud. I want to be the person that is not hypocritical because I have grown up in a church where a leader would expect something from us but they would not even live up to their own rules or advice. Not only do I want to live up to the things I say but I think that this self-salvation is a ginormous problem in today’s society. I can see it in the lives of my family and the immediate people around me. There has been countless times when I have heard someone tell me that, once they can get this part of their life figured out then maybe they can become a Christian. This mindset
In today’s society and culture we want to work for everything, and we feel that if we want to receive something we must do this and that. In general, most people have a hard time accepting a free gift, because they feel undeserving. God’s grace is a free gift and since there is no checklist for me to complete, I continually stand in awe of God and His grace. This is why the book is called, One Way Love, because even in our selfish and wicked ways the Lord has given us the greatest gift of all. To continue on in my last few thoughts: God’s grace is tough for us to fully understand grace because in order to receive grace we should be willing to give up control. I am the type of person who most of the time am unwilling to give control to someone else because I feel as if I am the only one who can truly control the situation. I do not feel as if I fully understand this concept of giving up control but I have …show more content…
Lately something that has been heavy on my heart is telling people about the danger or self-salvation. “When we feel this weight of judgement against us, we all tend to slip into the slavery of self-salvation: trying to appease the judge (friends, parents, spouse, ourselves) with hard work, good behavior, getting better, achievement, losing weight, and so on” (OWL pg. 70). There have been countless times when I have found myself trying to save myself and it did not work out for me. This is one thing that has been slowly changing in my life, because here at the leadership college we learn to lead and if we are constantly thinking about how to save ourselves, we will not be able to lead individuals who are either non-believers or struggling believers. I want to be the person to put into action the words that I speak out loud. I want to be the person that is not hypocritical because I have grown up in a church where a leader would expect something from us but they would not even live up to their own rules or advice. Not only do I want to live up to the things I say but I think that this self-salvation is a ginormous problem in today’s society. I can see it in the lives of my family and the immediate people around me. There has been countless times when I have heard someone tell me that, once they can get this part of their life figured out then maybe they can become a Christian. This mindset