What They Never Told Us About Grace

The preachers and teachers taught us the shorthand meanings of a lot of religious words in the protestant church where I grew up. One of those words was “grace” defined as “the unmerited favor of God.”

Without wading through the theology, most Christians believe we are sinners and separated from God who showed His grace with an unmerited gift, his son, Jesus, a sinless being, who was sacrificed for our sins with his death on the cross, a concept called “atonement.”

Atonement — defined as reparation for a wrong or injury — has a long history in…