“Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another” (Philippians. 2:1 TEV).
There was once a member of a church who would say to me when we met, “Gladys, have you heard the word of the Lord today?” He did not mean that I had listened to a radio reading of scripture.
God’s grace is a gift that God gives unconditionally through his son, Jesus Christ. There are no strings attached and there is no fine print.
Martin Luther writes in his treatise, The Freedom of a Christian, “I shall set down the following two propositions concerning the freedom and the bondage of the spirit:
Faith believes in something because it is inspired to that belief by a force or subject outside one’s self.