Скачать или смотреть The Paradox of Grace by Tim Knipp

What if taking God and Scripture seriously doesn’t answer all our questions but leads us deeper into paradox? What if living in the tension of these paradoxes actually makes more sense of life, not less? Join us for this 6 week teaching series during Lent that will follow along the Biblical themes explored in the book Surprised by Paradox.
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NOTES:

Key Scripture:
• Romans 8:1 - 4; 12 - 15

Other Scriptures:
• Ezekiel 36:25 - 27
• Matthew 5:3, 48
• Colossians 2:11 - 15; 3:1 - 11
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Quotes:
"Christ and him crucified: this is the gospel of grace, the good news that despite our
inability to ever make things right with God, he stretches out his hands, east to west, and
pays for the forgiveness that can cast our sins into his bottomless ocean of love."
Jen Pollock Michel

"And yet, though grace will take us as we are, it will not leave us there. Baptism cannot
mean that we get to enter and exit the waters the same person. Grace can’t mean that
we assent to the theoretical idea of God’s liberal love but submit to no real
transformation. There can be no clinging to death and decay while simultaneously
brandishing resurrection."
Jen Pollock Michel

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps,
you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the
leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not
surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts
abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The
explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of -
throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making
courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is
building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
C.S. Lewis