{"id":930,"date":"2009-03-26T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/grace_that_changes.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:42","slug":"grace_that_changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/grace_that_changes.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Grace That Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of <a href=\"http:\/\/oneinjesus.info\/2009\/03\/26\/the-future-of-the-progressive-churches-of-christ-shrinking-congregations\/\">a post on the future of conservative and progressive Churches of Christ<\/a>, Jay Guin said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Escaping a works-based salvation is not about finding freedom to be selfish. We flee works to find grace \u2014 but we&#8217;ve not really found grace until grace changes us to become gracious people, that is, people who serve others, especially those others who least deserve it \u2014 you know, like us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It underscores his point  &#8211; that the future for both groups, and other churches for that matter, lies not in maintaining the traditional path or moving to new ways.  It lies in preaching and living the gospel of grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of a post on the future of conservative and progressive Churches of Christ, Jay Guin said this: Escaping a works-based salvation is not about finding freedom to<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/grace_that_changes.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grace That Changes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grace That Changes - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/grace_that_changes.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grace That Changes - 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