Free Grace doesn’t make demands. It just gives. And from our vantage point, it always gives to the wrong person.

We see this over and over again in the Gospels: Jesus is always giving to the wrong people - prostitutes, tax collectors, half-breeds.
The most extravagant sinners of Jesus’s day receive his most compassionate welcome.

Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous. It doesn’t use sticks, carrots, or time cards. It doesn’t keep score.

As Robert Capon puts it, “Grace works without requiring anything on our part. It’s not expensive. It’s not even cheap. It’s FREE...” It refuses to be controlled by our innate sense of fairness, reciprocity, and evenhandedness. It defies logic. It has nothing to do with earning, merit, or deservedness.. It is opposed to what is owed. It doesn’t expect a return on investments. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated Giver.

By Charles L Klock