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Greetings Friends in Christ!
Grace is a Christianese word par excellence. We have saving grace, state of grace, good graces (and goodness gracious!), social graces, saying grace, grace periods, falls from grace, grace notes, and even a dreaded coup de grace. But what is grace? This week we’re revisiting the name of our institution and a core part of the gospel of Jesus, grace. Perhaps we’ve thought that grace is for Jesus and is only about forgiveness for our sins. It’s certainly that, but so much more. Grace is the very foundational character of God’s kingdom, and so it must be so of the embassy church and his ambassadors. Grace is more than something that is free (Latin gratis), it is the shape of a community with transformed imaginations about how the whole of creation works.
Rev. Dr. Gregory Wagenfuhr