the Episcopal priest Robert Farrar Capon. He calls it vulgar grace. In Jesus, God has put up a “Gone Fishing” sign on the religion shop. He has done the whole job in Jesus once and for all and simply invited us to believe it—to trust the bizarre, unprovable proposition that in him, every last person on earth is already home free without a single religious exertion: no fasting till your knees fold, no prayers you have to get right or else, no standing on your head with your right thumb in your left ear and reciting the correct creed—no nothing.… The entire show has been set to rights in the
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my first instinct is to reject what I see as the obvious error: if you accept Christ but never change, did you really?
then I examine my own behavior of the last forty-eight hours and wonder if I’m the one in the wrong here.
