Thursday, June 14, 2012

Disruptive Grace

Grace that is not disruptive is not grace…

Grace, strictly speaking, does not mean continuity but radical discontinuity, not reform but revolution, not violence but nonviolence, not the perfecting of virtues but the forgiveness of sins, not improvement but resurrection from the dead…The grace of God really comes to lost sinners, but in coming it disrupts them to the core. It slays to make alive and sets the captive free.

From Disruptive Grace: Essays in the Theology of Karl Barth

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