For Which…

My friend recently wrote a fantastic paper on grace – grace given to us from God, and the grace we offer from God to others.  In short – there is a grace by which we are saved and a grace for which we are saved.  Much of the Church has experienced the insights on the grace by which we are saved through the Reformation – but we are only beginning to unpack what it means to live into the grace for which we are saved.  What significant grace do you have to offer a desperate world?

Read these two quotes below from two radical Jesus followers (borrowed from the paper) and consider what grace may be hidden in you just waiting to save the world in your own small way:

“Let it be clear to us in our Head the very source and spring from which grace pours forth through all his members in accord with the measure of each.”

— Augustine

“In elevating us, grace also heals us, for it corresponds to our nature’s deepest aspiration. God in giving us participation in the divine inner life gives us to ourselves and releases within us the authentic powers that make us who we are as humans. One is finally free to become one’s genuine self.”

— Aquinas

“Let there be clear to us in our Head the very source and spring from which grace pours forth through all his members in accord with the measure of each.” and Aquinas: “In elevating us, grace also heals us, for it corresponds to our nature’s deepest aspiration. God in giving us participation in the divine inner life gives us to ourselves and releases within us the authentic powers that make us who we are as humans. One is finally free to become one’s genuine self.”
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