When we are gripped by the greatness and glory of our salvation in Christ, everything else, in a sense, takes care of itself. When Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to give generously to the needs of the poor saints in Jerusalem, he reminded them of “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 8:9). This, as we have already noted, is the theological grammar of the Bible. The imperatives of duty are rooted in and flow out of the indicatives of grace. It is this foundational pattern that keeps
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