The Grace and Truth Paradox: Finding the Balance

The thing I could have done to my father was what I was tempted to do—water down the truth. It would have made it easier on me for the moment. But withholding God’s truth from my dad would have been withholding from him God’s grace.

What if we could reduce Christ’s attributes to just two qualities that we could wrap our minds around? John 1:14 does exactly that. It describes him as “full of grace and truth.”

To be Christlike is to be full of what He was full of: grace and truth.

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The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance (Christian Book Summaries)

THE BOOK’S PURPOSE

• Establish grace and truth as the essential building blocks of Christian spirituality
• Point out the difficulties of manifesting both qualities simultaneously
• Deepen our understanding of the relationship between these two virtues
• Demonstrate the power of grace and truth working in tandem

THE BOOK’S MESSAGE

Grace and truth found their perfect union in Christ, but the rest of us tend to gravitate toward one or the other. Truth without grace breeds self-righteousness and legalism. Grace without truth breeds deception and moral compromise. The key to true Christian spirituality is to integrate these two qualities into life ...