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Original post @  https://kingdompastor.wordpress.com/2021/12/20/oh-lord-its-monday-and-theres-no-transforming-grace/

OH LORD, IT’S MONDAY! AND THERE’S NO TRANSFORMING GRACE

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Pastor Randy

According to progressive theology, there is no need for grace that transforms us for the following reasons:

• God loves us just the way we are
• God wants us to love Him just the way we are
• God wants us to love others just the way they are
• (Sounds good so far, right?)
• Because God loves us just the way we are and because we love others just the way they are, He blesses and sanctifies the way we are
• That loves erases the idea that we have been infected with sin–i.e. changes that sin into holiness without us changing a thing, other than being loving
• We are free to keep living the way we have been as long as we love others
• Loving others must include accepting, condoning, approving, AND blessing their sin of choice
• The only parts of the Bible that are accurate and relevant are those verses that talk about unconditional love
• Jesus died on the Cross so that WE can determine what is right or wrong, as long as we love

Therefore there is no such thing as Transforming Grace. Why would anyone ever need to change, to be transformed? Right? Just embrace love and be loving–that’s why Jesus died on the Cross. This sounds like a simple solution to all the human problems today. And yet, even those who have embraced Progressive Theology continue to be unhappy, suspicious, and angry at everyone who doesn’t agree with them.

And the Monday Morning Attitude continues to overwhelm people. The primary reason. . .scratch that. . .the only reason we dread another week is because we have failed to be transformed by God’s Grace or we have forgotten that God’s grace HAS and IS transforming us. As long as we are unwilling to allow His Grace to work on us and in us, then each week provides us only with more misery, disappointment, and heartache.

Thankfully God’s Grace is Transforming us. Grace means God has been working to change us, is working to change us, and will continue to work on changing us until we are exactly who HE made us to be! Each week, each day, each hour, each minute, and every second God is working to make us whole and complete. The problems you are facing are moments where God’s Transforming Grace shines! The fears, anxieties, even failures–God’s Grace is at work to make us stronger, livelier, healthier, and confident.

When we open ourselves to God’s Grace and allow His Grace to change us–then we can say: Good! Lord, it’s Monday! What shall we do together?

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Romans 12:1-2

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To my brothers and sisters in Christ, please feel free to share this message of the cross with those in need…

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