Subversive Christian Unity

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via  Facebook I have remarked before on the lite beer antinomianism in which the preaching of God's grace makes people complacent about their sins. There is no progress toward amendment of life because God's grace has you covered. It is a simpleminded little transactional model in which God pays off our tab as we run it up. The message is insidious because it is so nearly the gospel, and it is easy for anyone to understand. Thus, it is readily accepted as the truth. But God's grace should be leading us (even if quite slowly sometimes, for we drag our feet) toward greater holiness, not complacency about our unholiness. That is not to minimize the troubles I and others have with besetting sins which, for some, become a combat of a lifetime's duration. But we are fighting, that is the difference. We do not shrug at our sins. Sometimes the message of God's grace is orthodox when it comes out of the preacher's mouth, but turns antinomian as it enters