The First Church of Utopia

[Sam]

Originally Posted by notofworks

You know, there isn't really a verse that gives us the "cut-off" point. But I don't know that we really need one. I don't think one was provided for us because it never comes up. The people I have seen smothered by grace have been the very ones who are so smitten with God and His mercy, that they are magnetically drawn to God more than ever!

I once sat in the office on a Saturday with two parents and their daughter, who was in the choir, who had been caught in the back seat of a car with a boy on a Friday night. Yes, they were doing THAT.

She was devastated. Broken. Embarrassed.

It was assumed that she wouldn't be doing anything in the church for a while but I strongly insisted that she stand in the choir the next day with her head held high, understanding that she was forgiven, restored, and on exactly the same level as anyone else in that choir. There was no way I could allow that choir to sing about God's grace the next day if it didn't have any grace.

Today, that girl is married with two beautiful children and a great family there was never an issue again. But had there been, we would have done the same thing again.

WOW, NOW!!!

That really touched me.

That reminded me of John 8:11