Two Ministers and the Rusty Old Can

One particularly crafty, if not insidious way a “good works” righteousness can seep into our theology is by positioning faith as the pre-eminent work. We must never forget that faith itself is a gift of the Holy Spirit–never earned. 

The Swedish Theologian and author Bo Giertz captures this dynamic masterfully in his 1955 novel The Hammer of God, a story that…