Grace itself is not expensive. It’s not even cheap. It’s free. A no-strings-attached gift of one-way love. But to practice grace—to love the unlovable, to forgive the unforgivable, to stand with the guilty—well, that might cost you favor and friends. It might just cost you your life. Grace, as Robert Capon writes in the preface to Romance of the Word, is: . . . wildly irreligious stuff. It’s more than enough to get God kicked out of the God union that the theologians have formed to keep him on his divine toes so he won’t let the riffraff off scot-free. Sensible people, of course, should need
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