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8/14/09 by Jonathan Brink Categories :
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Excerpt - Cheap Grace

The following is from the updated Leadership Manual, which is expected to be finished NEAR the end of this month.

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“The common concern with grace is that if we offer it freely it becomes cheap. But intentional grace was never cheap. It always costs something. To offer grace meant someone had to absorb the cost of someone’s brokenness.”


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Angela Harms 8/14/09

If it’s not offered freely, it’s not grace, is it?

It does makes sense to me that someone had to absorb the cost. But the whole story is that that’s been done already, isn’t it?

Not sure how related this is, but it came to mind… A zen teacher once told me that karma isn’t some weird woo-woo concept. It just means the principle of cause and effect: that we are changed by things we’ve done, things our ancestors have done, thing that happened to us or around us. Brokenness does have costs. As I see it, Jesus offers to break that karma, to undo the damage and restore us to wholeness.

I think it’s when I cling to the story that I have to pay the costs that I refuse to be restored, and I hurt.

Jonathan Brink 8/14/09

Grace calls us to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and continue to absorbing the cost. You see it in your Love ministry. Sometimes people throw you a load of crap and you just have to absorb it.

Angela Harms 8/14/09

Got thrown a load of crap just this morning, as a matter of fact. :) Interesting. I’m going to sit with this a while.

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