And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen
his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and
truth. (John 1:14)
We need to be grace people and truth people. Not half grace and half
truth. Not all grace on Mondays and all truth on Tuesdays. All grace
and all truth all the time.
When I was being interviewed to be the pastor at University Reformed
Church, I had to indicate where I was on a spectrum of issues. One of
the lines measured grace versus truth. I wrote something like: “This is
a bad question. Seeing as how Jesus came from the Father full of grace
and truth, I believe we should be 100% in both directions.” I think
they knew it was a loaded question and wanted to see my response. Continue at Kevin DeYoung
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