Scandalous Grace E-Book

Jonie Scruggs

• Herausgeber: Worldwide Publishing Group
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Grace Isn't Finished When We Are Forgiven, Grace Carries Us to Completion!
 
In our current culture, people are riddled with pressures to perform and ashamed when they do not measure up. We often view our relationship with God through the same lens of performance pressure, trying to merit God's favor. This is a dangerous way to walk with God and a miserable way to live life's journey!
"Scandalous Grace" gives a fresh and insightful perspective from Paul's letter to the Ephesian Church. As you journey, through these pages, you will discover God isn't finished with you once He has forgiven you. He cleanses you, and then He carries you to completion.
Grace grants the true disciple of Christ endless freedom! Freedom is not the lack of challenge or even chains in your life. You may still be in some chains yet experiencing the liberating power of God's grace.
Journey slowly through this book and bask in the scandalous grace of God. Your enemy can't steal your freedom because your freedom doesn't come from your enemy, your freedom comes froth Christ! This is "Scandalous Grace."
 
Through these pages you will discover:
- God's plan is more powerful than your prison.
-      Nothing goes to waste in God's plan.
-      True unity doesn't require uniformity; it unleashes diversity.
-      Grace assures that no matter what comes against us when the-battle
ends and the dust settles, we will still be standing.
 

Leseprobe

SCANDALOUS

GRACE

Grace, infusing and affecting all aspects of our life journey

JONIE SCRUGGS

© Copyright 2022, Jonie Scruggs

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter 1: Position Produces Practice 

Chapter 2: Work It Out 

Chapter 3: We Are Family 

Chapter 4: Unity Is Not Uniformity 

Chapter 5: Grace Changes Everything 

Chapter 6: Still Standing

FOREWORD

Jonie Scruggs has been a disciple of Christ and a pastor of the Gospel for many years. I’ve known Jonie since he became engaged to my best friend’s daughter thirty-plus years ago. I’ve had the privilege—though from afar—to see his testimony to the Lord Jesus Christ played out, and it’s been a testimony I’m proud of. More importantly, it is a testimony of faithfulness that must bring a smile to the face of God our Father.

I love the writings of Paul, and especially the book of Ephesians. I believe the church in Ephesus held a special place in the heart of Paul, who spent three years there during his third missionary journey. While he was in prison in Rome, awaiting execution for his testimony and his unwillingness to refrain from preaching the Gospel, the church in Ephesus sent a visitor to Paul to encourage him. In response, Paul sent this letter back to the church, a reciprocal encouragement—from a man who was about to die.

In six short chapters Paul teaches us, in Jonie’s words, “that grace gives us life, but then it carries us, keeps us, and continues to work on us.” In other words, grace—God’s scandalous grace—is the vehicle that moves us from conversion to the finish line, never leaving us to work our way alone on the path, but rather guided by God’s precious Holy Spirit. This journey is not as much about what we do for Christ as it is about what God has done and is doing in us. As Jonie writes, the six chapters of Ephesians are “easily broken down into three and three... First, there is the Gospel story in the first three chapters. Second, there’s the story of how the Gospel story affects my story in the last three chapters.”

I pray that as you travel through the pages of this book, you will, as it says in Ephesians 3:18, “...have the power to understand ... how wide, how long, how high, and how deep” God’s love is for us and for His Church, and the part you and I have to play in it.

Sharon K. Souza

Author of: “What We Don’t Know” and “Annie Walker”