through the church.” As recipients of grace, we forgiven humans are in a unique position. We know what it’s like to live apart from God, to harbor suspicions of God, even to hate God. But we also know what it’s like to experience his grace and love—an incredible gift that cost him everything and us nothing. Even unfallen angels have never experienced such love, and we alone can explain what it’s like to experience grace, “so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace