Emphasis Preaching Journal
Isn't there something we must do?
Commentary
Living in a world that runs on the basis of rewards and punishments, many people have difficulty with the biblical understanding of God's grace. Grace means that everything we need for salvation has already been done for us. It's not the good old American way! Or Canadian or German or French for that matter. "You get what you deserve" in the world, and so that logic is carried over to God.