"Allergic to Grace" | The Glorious Ruin, Part 07 | Tullian Tchividjian

Religion may offend us because it tells us what to do, and we don’t like being told what to do. But grace can offend us even more because it tells us that there’s nothing we can do. And if there’s one thing that offends us more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything

We naturally resist grace because it has nothing to do with us and our efforts and therefore it wrestles leverage out of our hands—we can’t buy God’s blessing with our goodness and that can drive us nuts. The religious currency of keeping the rules and being good may buy us a gold star here and some respect there, but it can’t buy us a gram of affection with God. And in the end, this is unbelievably liberating.

We hope this message from Tullian Tchividjian —“Allergic to Grace"—is a huge encouragement to you.