Comments on: The Impracticality of Grace http://smidg.in/2007/09/30/the-impracticality-of-grace/ The Smidgin: A Sporadic Blogger Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim http://smidg.in/2007/09/30/the-impracticality-of-grace/#comment-3718 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:09:55 +0000 http://smidg.in/2007/09/30/the-impracticability-of-grace/#comment-3718 No sin in particular, just sin in general. Sometimes I find myself looking for answers and not finding many.

I do lean very much toward your answer concerning the body of Christ, but it only works if you bring your troubles before it.

]]> By: Laura http://smidg.in/2007/09/30/the-impracticality-of-grace/#comment-3719 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:48:40 +0000 http://smidg.in/2007/09/30/the-impracticability-of-grace/#comment-3719 *hits you* I don’t know what sin I’m hitting you for, so I’ll let you decide where it’s applicable.

On a more serious note: While someone standing around to hit you when you sin doesn’t begin to answer our need for a bridge between who we’re created and who we’ve become, I think there’s an element of grace that is found in community. In Scripture, we find the call to Christ brings us into fellowship with His Church as well. And the faith we live is lived among people, some more dear to us than than others, but all made in His image. There’s no Jesus-and-me bubble.

I know that doesn’t begin to be an answer. I don’t have any answers, else I’d be a radically different person. But I’ve seen the shadows of love, grace, forgiveness in my companions that bear His name, and maybe somehow that’s a piece to the puzzle. At the end of the day, all I know is that I’m thankful I don’t have to live out my faith alone.

Let me know when you figure everything in life out.

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