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Readers respond to Mark Galli's "In the Beginning, Grace"

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Jim Johnson

October 12, 2009  6:29am

I loved your article. It clearly reveals that, in our zeal for God we often place the cart before the horse. We try to "do and be" ourselves. First we need inward transformation through the power of God's grace. Then we will naturally live out the things we know God desires us to be and do. For those interested, I have a book available through Amazon.com called, "Transforming Grace: God's Path to Life and Inward Change". May we all experience the power of God's Transforming Grace which will change us and empower us to live the way God desires.

Cheryl Berto

October 09, 2009  12:14pm

What a great article. I think that Mark nailed it. I will be sharing this article with people in my church. One aspect that caused me to be cautious was the exhortation at the end to get connected to the Word. I think that many of us evangelicals are so prone to "Bibliolatry" that we think that more Bible study will set us free whereas, more of the healing presence of God is what is required. However, connecting with the God that is calling us into relationship (the Word) through the written word, is still paramount. Well, well done!!!

Dan

October 09, 2009  7:04am

seemingly endless and its verbosity is matched only by its vapidity. horizontal, vertical, do something, don't do something concluding, finally, with a watered down version of, "go to church. hear God's Word, believe God's Word, do God's Word". or was it "don't do?'. i'm unsure. hahaha. evangelicals cannot make any real assessment of themselves, so how can they comment on society or churchianity? oh, right, the preacher will do it each and every Sunday where we are being wonderously and magically renewed. like, i'm sure. i couldn't live in the big old scary fragmented world w/out your collective insights and religious big shots pointing me to where real hope lies which, conveniently, gets them into my head and wallet on a self-serving, politically motivated basis. guess I always have some sort of "pastor" to fall back on as the final authority- the bigger, the better. whew! what a relief! sure beats thinking and personal responsibility. victimization is much wiser.

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Ryder C

October 07, 2009  5:16pm

The most important thing is glorifying God. Being satisfied in Him and relying on the Holy Spirit. God will do the rest.

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Jay Phelan

October 07, 2009  3:45pm

It strikes me as disingenuous for you to claim you did not mention Soong-Chan Rah's book out of respect when you had no difficulty citing other books and authors. It would have been a greater mark of respect to mention the author and the book and to give people a chance to decide for themselves whether his work is accurately described and evaluated. Leaving him out renders him invisible--a state very familiar to persons of color in the Evangelical world. Thus Dr. Rah's book.

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corpuschristioutreachministries

October 07, 2009  5:57am

Good article, think you could have possibly covered any more angles? As Evangelicals we somtimes suffer from the 'how is our movement doing' critque,I mean as believers we are already connected to the great tradtions of the church [you know, the ancient future thing] we are part of 'the organic church, simple church, etc.' though I agree the term Pagan went too far. We love the spiritual disciplines, but at times they can become to introspective, the monastic movment prodcued some good things, but it also isolated Gods leaders [some lived in deserts, others on poles!] Iliked the overall article, but it does reveal the multitudes of division/individualism in the church.

Granny Fran

October 07, 2009  12:53am

Thank you for printing this article. It shows me why I am feeling overwhelmed. I do need to stop doing, or guilting, or shoulding, and just sit with the Lord for a while. I need to be a pipeline, not a stagnant river with no fresh living water replenishing me moment by moment. It is the Spirit who needs to move thru me, I cannot keep moving without the constant inflow of the Spirit. Instead of driving myself, I need to let the Spirit move me. It's that simple, and yet, I keep forgetting it.

Eric Orozco

October 06, 2009  9:55pm

We see a constant horizontal temptation because that is the prodding of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit knows "We" and seems to employ it to great effect. The question we need to be asking is "Where are we not seeing horizontal temptations?" Contrary perhaps to the phenomenological gnosticism of C.S.Lewis, the movement of the Kingdom, methinks, is less inward...and further outward.

Scott

October 06, 2009  9:09pm

You have turned it to a den of theives!Never mind subjective morality,excuse the the logos as well.Many shall come in my name and I shall say depart from me you workers of iniquity.How vile must the wrath of God be poured!A generation of VIPERS?

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Oscar

October 06, 2009  4:05pm

My goodness! Who can possibly keep up with all the different Protestant religions?! What is it now? 30,000 sects and counting? I'll stay with the Faith once delivered onto the saints, thank you very much. I'll stick with Rome.

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