From 1st weeks teaching on grace by Mike bickle: “Much of the grace teaching in the Body of Christ today—and I say this word measurably. I do not want to be a hotshot. I do not want to be negative in an undue way. I want to be accurate. I do not want to be negative or positive. I want to be accurate. I have thought on this word I am using much, and I believe it is true. I believe much teaching in the church in the West today is not true grace teaching. I believe the church in the West is, as a whole, significantly in a different pathway from the grace that compels people to live abandoned and righteous on the inside—not just righteous on external things (although that is good, too.) But I am talking about longing to live out the Sermon on the Mount at the heart level. It is distorted because it empowers people to compromise. It is a grace teaching that makes sin small, like, “Hey, who cares? Boys will be boys. That is how it is. God understands, you know? Praise God. Thank you for grace.” We just keep on in drunkenness and lewdness and immorality and all kinds of unclean speech and many, many things. We just say, “Well, hey, grace. What about the bride of Christ?” and it is a perversion of a very holy and precious thing in God’s sight.”
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:50:47 +0000
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