Don't Try To Understand It. You Won't

I Have Been Seized By The Power Of A Great Affection.

This Is The God Of The Gospel Of Grace. A God Who, Out Of Love For Us, Sent The Only Son He Ever Had Wrapped In Our Skin. He Learned How To Walk, Stumbled And Fell, Cried For His Milk, Sweated Blood In The Night, Was Lashed With A Whip And Showered With Spit, Was Fixed To A Cross, And Died Whispering Forgiveness On Us All.

Leadership In The Church Is Not Entrusted To Successful Fund Raisers, Brilliant Biblical Scholars, Administrative Geniuses, Or Spellbinding Preachers...but To Those Who Have Been Laid Waste By A Consuming Passion For Christ - Passionate Men And Women For Whom Privilege And Power Are Trivial Compared To Knowing And Loving Jesus.

God Is Loving Us - You And Me - This Moment, Just As We Are And Not As We Should Be.

To Live By Grace Means To Acknowledge My Whole Life Story, The Light Side And The Dark. In Admitting My Shadow Side I Learn Who I Am And What God's Grace Means.