...continued from October 26 and October 30....
The gap between what’s true and what’s not true about God is not bridged by good feelings of church friendships, a system of rational thought, a carefully outlined God-doctrine, or even a well-articulated belief system. God bridged the gap by binding truth to a person—the person of Jesus Christ—who comes full of grace and full of truth. The world of words and concepts becomes a life of flesh and blood. By embodying the fullness of God’s grace and truth, Jesus’ life of grace becomes the catalyst for God’s truth. Releasing the grace of Jesus reveals the truth of Jesus. I’m not suggesting the truth of Jesus is always received, only that until and unless the grace of Jesus is released, the truth of Jesus will not be received.
I’ve seen research that declares a truth crisis spreading like a plague through the value system of American teens. By looking at these polls, you would think all young people are morally adrift in a sea of moral swill, not the least bit interested in anchoring their lives to bedrock, absolute truth. And, I have to say, that anyone who works with young people can easily find some merit in the statistics. But maybe there’s a crisis of truth in our culture because there’s a crisis of grace. I’d like to see a poll on that.
Grace reaches out and grabs truth out of the ethereal world of the propositionally abstract and deeply plants it into the messy world of human living, providing a relational context in which the truth of God becomes visible, touchable, tangible, and even vulnerable. Wherever, whenever, and with whomever God’s grace—his generosity, compassion, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, faithfulness—intersects our lives, defying our conventional expectations of what’s true and not true of God, God’s truth is revealed, and the potential exists for his truth to be received.
More to come...
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