the best place to begin.... application: imagine don't follow my example do follow...

The best place to begin...

Application:

Imagine Don't follow my example

Do follow Christ's example Be gracious!

The Mission of Grace

What is grace? What does grace do?

What does grace mean?

Romans 6:1

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may

abound?

Romans 6:2-4

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into

Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order

that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Mission of Grace

That's what it's all about!

John 1:14

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and

truth.

John 1:16 + 17

And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the

law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus

Christ.

Mission of Grace

Grace for the lowly

Grace that brings freedom

Grace is self-sacrificial

I Corinthians 1:26 – 27

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise

according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the

world to shame the strong;

I Corinthians 1:28 - 31

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are so that

no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness

sanctification and redemption so that , as it is written, “let the one who

boasts, boast in the Lord”.

Graced Individuals

Graced Community

Grace Overflowing?

II Corinthians 5:15

...And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for

themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

II Corinthians 5:17-19

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. The old has passed

away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us

the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the

message of reconciliation

II Corinthians 5:20 - 6:1

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We

implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he has

made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the

righteousness of God. Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to

receive the grace of God in vain.

Mission of GraceGrace of Mission

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Put down that sour milk!Put down that sour milk!

Receive God's gracious Receive God's gracious giftgift

Imagine how we might be Imagine how we might be ministers of God's grace.ministers of God's grace.