"Where is God's grace most evident in your life?" my pastor looks into my eyes and asks. "Other than every moment every day, from the time I wake up?" I joke with him. "The most obvious way that God's grace is evident in my life is through His body, the church," I say. I'm not joking this time. It is the one place that has picked me up when I have fallen. It has held me close when I long to walk away. It has taught me the very best about that Good Book; who I am in light of it and who God says He is in-spite of who I think He may be. It has seen me at my worst and not judged. It has brought meals, laughed hard, loved for real and helped me learn everything from cooking to quilting. It has asked hard questions and challenged my sin and held my hand and prayed fervently. I say it, but I should say they because it isn't really and it is it? It is the people in all the places, in all those little churches and communities that we have
"We show people Jesus only when we show them grace and truth. Anything less than both is neither." ~Randy Alcorn