Separate from others?

Read Romans 8:1-17



Read Ephesians 2:8-9



I wondered for sometime if Christianity was different from other religions. It seemed different, but I couldn't put my finger on it, until I read a story about C.S. Lewis. It was about a group of scholars that were in a large hall debating the difference between Christianity and other religions. These scholars debating for hours until C.S. Lewis finally showed up and asked them what the were debating. When they told him he said; "Oh that's easy. It's grace." then he walked out. The rest of the story is unknown, to me at least, but I can't imagine there was a whole lot to talk about after that. The notion that we as Christians only have to believe that He died on the cross (John 3:16-17) for us is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. We as humans want to complicate and over analyze....what a waste of time.

This life is not for sitting around waiting for something to happen, or feeling guilty about past transgressions, or fighting about the rightness and wrongness of what we think Christianity should be. It is about Christ dieing for us and us receiving the grace we don't deserving.

Questions:
1. What other religions apply grace?
2. Are you receiving grace?
3. Are you showing grace to others?