God’s Grace in Everyday Life: What Changes When You Stop Trying to Earn God’s Love
God’s grace becomes personal when you stop discussing it as a religious idea and begin asking what it changes in the life you are actually living. The complete free book, The Gift You Cannot Earn: What God’s Grace Is, What It Is Not, and How Jesus Changes Everything , explores grace through salvation, repentance, forgiveness, weakness, suffering, relationships, work, prayer, spiritual failure, freedom, mission, and Christian hope. This companion begins with a more immediate question: what happens tomorrow morning when a person who has spent years trying to earn love finally begins living as someone who has already been met by Jesus? That question also continues the movement begun in Beyond the Waterline: What Jesus Really Taught About Baptism, Salvation, and the Holy Spirit . Water baptism matters as an embodied response of faith, but water cannot purchase salvation, manufacture the Holy Spirit, or replace the grace of Jesus Christ. The Christian life does not begin with a ceremo...