Controversy.

God is controversial.

God's radical Love challenges our preconceived ideas about goodness and justice. 

We are used to thinking of ourselves as good and others as evil.

But God judges no one. (John 5:22)

And Jesus said: "' You judge by human standards, I judge no one.'"  John 8:15 (NRSV)

Our expectations of Natural Justice are shattered.

And this is because those we call evil are acting out of fear or a reaction to the false teachings of those in authority.

And so God writes off their debts.

Just as God has written off our debts.

This is the reality of God's amazing grace.

And it is available to anyone.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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