The Bible tells the story of God and us. 1. That story shows God working to make a
Good Place for us to live, where we have good relationships with the place where we live, with God, and with the people with whom we live. 2. That story also shows that we are not self-contained, self- sufficient units. Just as we require connections, interactions, and inputs from our physical place (water, food, shelter, etc.), we also need connections, interactions, and inputs from God and each other. Good that comes to us from beyond ourselves we call grace; grace being when God does something for us, in us, or through us that we could not do for ourselves or for others by ourselves. Grace is the core concept in life to understand and flow with. God’s grace is the cause and the ground of our existence. Understanding grace, living in grace, living by grace brings every good thing to us and to those around us.
3. That story also shows that
love is the reason for our place, the motivating power behind grace, where grace comes from and where grace goes. From love, by love, in love, for love God creates the world.
God makes
Good Places
by grace
where we live
in love
every good thing .
and receive
This is the story of God and us in the Bible.
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