Living a Grace-Filled Life

According to Dallas Willard, grace is “God doing in us and for us what we could not do ourselves.” We are meant to be forgiven by grace; we are also meant to live by grace.

We often believe that only “sinners” need grace or that the only times we need grace are times of guilt. But as Dallas used to say, “Saints burn far more grace than sinners ever could. They burn it the way a jet burns rocket fuel.”

Salvation means that not only am I forgiven by grace, but I am also learning to live by grace. This is part of what makes boasting for any good that comes out of me as unthinkable…