How society has taught us to categorize, limit, and relate to one another must have no force among those who are “in Christ.”
Paul worked hard to preserve the unity of the church without sacrificing the truth of the gospel.
Dying with Christ, we die to the world’s power to order our lives. We are free to become fully God’s new creation.
Christ has not accomplished the full purpose of his death for us until he has come alive within us and through us by the Holy Spirit.
Only the apostolic gospel that faithfully preserves God’s invitation, issued on God’s terms, has the power to lead us to life.
The truth is that grace, or gift, was not a concept unique to the Christian faith in the first century. In fact, even pagan religion afforded grace a role in the relationship between the gods and their followers. What makes the grace of the Christian gospel unique? In today’s Seven Minute Seminary video, Dr. John Barclay explains that it’s the nature of the recipients—us—that is so telling about the grace of God in Jesus Christ.
