we are raised. That’s an insight difficult to keep front and center within the complexity of our current religious systems. You may have drawn the very opposite conclusion. Perhaps from your perspective, God’s requirements are innumerable and his grace minimal. If that is the case, you are not alone. You are in the majority. And my hope is that by the time you reach the halfway mark in this book, you will have shed much of that misbelief and will embrace God as he is: the God characterized by grace.