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Grace & Guilt

In Guilt and Grace, Swiss physician and Christian, Paul Tournier, writes…

I cannot study this very serious problem of guilt with you without raising the very obvious and tragic fact that religion—my own as well as that of all believers—can crush instead of liberate.” Speaking about some of his patients, Tournier describes “a man harboring guilt over an old sin, a woman who cannot put out of her mind an abortion that took place ten years before.

What each of these patients needs, more than anything, is grace. But in many churches they experience the opposite, legalism, the threat of punishment & exclusion.