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09 Nov

A grace-filled person gives . . .

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The father in Jesus’ amazing story of the two prodigal sons (Luke 15) is a great illustration of our grace-filled Heavenly Father. The story reminds us of God’s outrageous, relentless, illogical goodness when we deserved the opposite.

Jesus was “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

If a person is becoming more like the Father and Jesus, how will it show?

A Jesus-like, grace-filled person gives people (even their enemies) what they need rather than what they deserve.

A grace-filled person

  • gives patience without deadlines
  • respect without demands
  • acceptance without precondition
  • optimism without naïveté
  • mercy without vengeance
  • truth without nastiness
  • forgiveness without reminders
  • support without requests
  • celebration without recrimination

Ideally, a church is populated with that kind of people. A grace-filled church is filled with people who are outrageously good to others, even to those who deserve the opposite.

These thoughts were taken from a recent sermon. If you would like an unedited copy of the manuscript, contact me at drbrudd@msn.com


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