Hyper-Grace Quotes

“There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers.”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“We think when Jesus said, “You have heard it said do not commit adultery, but if you even think about it you’re guilty,” that He was trying to get them to be more obedient to those Laws. He made those Laws impossible. He did so on purpose so they would stop trying to live up to them and put their faith in Him. He wasn’t trying to rally them up for holiness when He said, “If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off!” He was telling them how severe the Law really is if they were going to continue trying to live by it, because they had cheapened it and made it doable, just like so many have today. Jesus was saying, “You want to gain holiness and purity that way? Cut off your hand and gouge out your eye if they cause you to sin. Because if you break even one of those Laws, you will be judged for breaking them all.”[29]”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“Although nobody in the grace movement is saying grace is a license to sin (nor have they ever), it’s often assumed that, since we don’t emphasize the Law and push it on people like our accusers think we should, we must be endorsing sin and telling people it’s okay to do whatever they want. In truth, we avoid pushing the Law because we believe what scripture says: that the Law increases sin (Romans 5:20), sin gets its strength from the Law (1 Cor. 15:56), the Law is the ministry of death (2 Cor. 3:6), the Law isn’t based on faith (Gal. 3:12), and nobody can be made right with God through keeping the Law (Gal. 2:20). In fact, though many preachers will tell us today that it’s sin that separates us from God, and we need to go back to His holy Law to be reconciled, scripture actually teaches the opposite. It says that the Law is what separates people from Christ and causes them to fall from grace (Gal. 5:4). Our choice to not enforce those Laws is not because we want to see people sin, but because we want them to live free from sin. Scripture is very clear that those Laws are the very thing causing people to sin. While we receive many accusations that our grace-emphasized message is a “license to sin,” if you look at the church today, and all throughout its entire history, sin and the blatant abuse of people has always been done in the name of the Law, not in the name of grace. Nobody has ever killed anyone in the name of God’s grace, and yet countless crusades and wars have been waged in the name of upholding and enforcing those Laws. Some today are in Uganda using the law as a license to kill homosexuals.[27] Why do we ignore what scripture so clearly says about the law? “The letter kills…”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“We don’t need to “be filled,” we already are. We don’t need to “pursue God,” He has already pursued us. We aren’t trying to call Him down out of Heaven through our good works and displays of devotion, but He has already come down on His own because of His grace. We are already one with Him.[23]  ”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“By definition then, if you believe what you’ve heard from these anti-“hyper-grace” teachers without ever looking into it for yourself, then it’s you who have been deceived by them.   Deceive”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“If you build your sin to the sky, God has already built His grace for you to the moon.”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“The problem, especially with people stirring up this “hyper-grace” controversy, is that they’ve added limitations where He has added none, and have kept limitations where He has completely removed them.”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“The Gospel is the happy news that “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not holding their sin against them.”[12] Whose sin is He not holding against them? THE WORLD.”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“The foundation of this so-called “hyper-grace” message is that we are free to rest from our religious efforts. We’re not under obligation to keep the standards of the old, but instead we’re under the grace of God who gives freely based on His ability to love, not our ability to earn His love through our good behavior.”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God