21st Century Grace

21st Century Grace This page is dedicated to promoting the Gospel of Grace.

04/11/2023

The focus of this site is about to change, to relate not only to God’s abundant and unconditional Grace, available to all, but to the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is indeed coming soon, first to gather believers both alive and dead in the event known as the rapture, and then at the end of a seven-year tribulation period which will impact the entire world.

It is our belief that all of this will take place before the mid-2040’s, with his first return taking place two thousand years after the dispensation of Grace began, likely in the late 2020’s or early to mid-2030’s. More information on will be posted in the near future.

04/30/2021

Christianity in North America, particularly in the US, needs a correction. Right-wing, Republican Evangelicals have hogged the spotlight for too long. Their fixations opposing abortion, LGBTQ rights and social welfare programs and supporting gun rights cannot be squared with the gospel of grace, which Jesus preached.
His message is not one of anger but one of welcome to all, to reconcile with God – and not an angry God, but one of mercy and love. If you read through the New Testament you will not see Jesus condemning sinners, except for the self-righteous Pharisees, and railing at them to get clean. Even when he met a notorious tax collector, Matthew, He called him to follow Him, not forsake his sinful ways. It was a given that the tax collector’s life would change for the better, and it did, as he left his job and his money to become an apostle. Jesus was then the guest of honour at a banquet at Matthew’s house, attended by notorious sinners, and when Pharisees asked him why he was eating with such people he said:
Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”.
Jesus displayed grace – favour from God that wasn’t earned or deserved- not condemnation. He met people where they lived, on their level, not from some pious perch raining down God’s wrath for their evil deeds. And except for his actions against the religious leaders in the temple just before He was crucified, He wasn’t political and refused to be drawn into political issues (“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s”, He said about paying taxes).
You also would not have found Jesus campaigning for everyone’s right to bear arms or swords and not leading crusades against sexual immorality, of which there was plenty in those days. He just asked people to follow Him and learn from Him, and it was evident that if they did, they would lose interest in their former ways. The idea of Him endorsing someone like Donald Trump, who personified greed and avarice, would be absurd, no matter what promises he might have made to evangelicals.
So it’s incumbent on those of us who don’t identify with “Christian identity politics” to stand up for what Jesus really stood for and not get drawn into hard-line and often hateful political action.

03/29/2020

If God has any message for us in this time, it’s no different from what it has always been. That He welcomes all who come to Him, with no preconditions, wherever you are and whatever you have done. He will give you peace and abide with you forever if you will trust Him. Some who dare to believe will be healed and brought back from death. But to all, He offers comfort and freedom from fear.

This is not “His fiery wrath and judgment” brought to Earth because of our sins. It is our mistakes and mismanagement that have brought things this far. So it is a time to seek His grace, peace and wisdom, and to hope we will emerge from this with greater empathy and love for each other.

Love this. Originally posted by Paul Ellis, a grace teacher in New Zealand.
06/14/2018

Love this. Originally posted by Paul Ellis, a grace teacher in New Zealand.

06/09/2018

My favourite scripture:

“There is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:1, 2 (NIV)

Condemnation kills. The Spirit
of Jesus gives life.

03/01/2018

Grace and mercy are God’s greatest gifts.. after salvation itself of course.

No matter what you have done or said or how badly you may have missed it, it has been forgiven through Jesus’ death on the cross.

He has given us His resurrection life, often misnamed “eternal life” in the Bible, in exchange.

And if we depend on Him daily, we can start to live out that life in our world.

10/24/2017

When Paul says we need to "die to self", it seems like a very hard thing to do. And it is, for our flesh, which of course is the main motivating force behind that old part of myself. Last week I was feeling quite down and condemned about a few things and the way my life has gone, but then I sensed something asking me, "Who is this voice condemning you?"

I really didn't have an answer at first. Then, slowly, I realized it was me. Or at least a projection of myself as the "ideal me". The me of my old dreams -- many of which have not been fulfilled -- the old unregenerate self. Then I realized that ideal me isn't real. He has only ever existed as a "projected self" in my mind. So since then I've started to turn off the voice. It's not real. And once I reach the point where I don't listen at all, I will be able to say I have died to self.

10/19/2017

Thank God for His grace. Without that we are all lost forever. He reaches out to us no matter what we have done, and always forgives. Jesus paid it all.

08/10/2017

In response to the evangelical leaders beating the drums for war, and claiming God has given Trump the power to destroy North Korea, I have one simple question. Is that what Jesus do? It's a question worthy of prayer and meditation.

08/01/2017

We need to walk in the abundance of God's grace and the gift of his righteousness. Not to assert our own sense of righteousness, born of religion, self-effort, or politics. It's all about following Jesus, not what we have concluded is right in our own minds.

06/06/2017

At some point, inevitably, Christians will have to choose between Jesus and their preferred political party and ideology.

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