Is the Bible inconsistent? Does the Bible teach an extravagant grace that asks nothing of us, or radical discipleship that demands everything from us? Which is it? We know that’s a false choice. But practically, we often don’t know how to hold these voices together. 17 And so we may tend to focus on one message and skim over the other, or as we saw in the last chapter, we may turn down the volume on one voice as we turn up the volume on another. (We might read the letter of James through the lens of Galatians, for example.) Or, back to where this chapter started, we give up trying to sort it
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