About Me: (not finished)
My Passion: At some point in life, you have been “degraced.” This may seem like a bold statement, but since “degraced” is my word (I invented it) you can’t be too sure, can you?
In simplest terms, if you have placed your trust in Jesus to save you and bring you into relationship with God, but then have come to believe that somehow you can affect your relationship with God by what you do or do not do, you have been “degraced.”
You may have been “degraced” in your personal study or observation. You may have been “degraced” by preaching or teaching or by your upbringing. You may have been “degraced” simply because it tends to be our default understanding: that there must be some way that we can affect that relationship, either positively or negatively.
However you got here, this is the truth: if you have trusted Jesus to save you from your sin, then your relationship with God can be affected by one thing and one thing only and that is the person of Jesus Christ.
Once He saved you, He affected your relationship with God, once for all time, by His sinless death on the cross on your behalf. The Father accepted you right then as if He were accepting Jesus, His own Son and that fact will never change.
Preachers throughout the land will agree wholeheartedly with that paragraph. But then, for various reasons, something happens along the way in different sermons, lessons and coffee shop discussions.
We preachers begin to “degrace” Joe Pewsitter on a regular basis by either explicitly or implicitly engaging in the pulpiteering of behavior modification. The result is that Joe walks out of church pondering how he can do better at making God happy rather than pondering how incredible that same God is. And so, Joe has been “degraced.”
The main reason for writing this blog is that the church—in fact, the world around us—is full of people who have been “degraced” in one way or another and may not even know it. My passion is to show this degracing for what it is and convince you of the truth of the gospel of grace so that you might be “regraced” and live in the freedom for which you have been set free (“It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1).
Revived By Grace 