Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

by Brant Hansen

The kingdom of God knows nothing of “balance.” It’s as balanced as, say, a teeter-totter with a gnat on one side and a hippo with, say, a grand piano on the other. No, wait; that’s misleading. The gnat has to move. It’s a teeter-totter with nothing on one end, and a hippo, grand piano, and also a gnat, because I just moved the gnat over there. In the economy of the kingdom of God, we can’t even afford the gnat. The kingdom is not “balanced,” it doesn’t operate via our “common sense,” and you can’t possibly, try as you might, “take it too far.” Being a citizen of that kingdom, then, means operating in that whole new economy, and grace—unfair, imbalanced grace—is the currency.