Works Versus Gratitude

Since our savior is also our Lord, we are called to follow his ways. And whenever discussions arise about what those ways look like in a church, confusion is bound to follow regarding grace and works. If it is grace, does it matter what we do? If it matters how we live, is that works righteousness?

Remembering back to the chronology of the Bible can help to clarify. It is grace that precedes law with Abraham, as Paul reminds us in Romans. Grace precedes the law with Moses, as well. How could it be works of the law if the law hadn’t even been given yet? Now that grace has come, we live…