from 1 John 4:7-21
John Wesley defined grace as God’s “bounty, or favour: his free, undeserved favour, … man having no claim to the least of his mercies. It was free grace that ‘formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into him a living soul,’ and stamped on that soul the image of God, and ‘put all things under his feet.’ … For there is nothing we are, or have, or do, which can deserve the least thing at God’s hand.”
For these 5 weeks, we consider Wesley’s deep understanding of God’s grace…His grace that goes before, His grace that saves, His grace that transforms…for the deeper our own understanding of that grace, the more grateful we are to have been offered it and the more willing we are to invite others into the reality of it.
w/ Vern Collins