Reading Between the Lines Week 5 - But God

<p>Most of us assume our biggest problem is that we just need to try harder. But Ephesians 2 reveals that the human condition without God is not sickness or poor decision-making. It is death. Into that hopeless condition, two words change everything: but God. His mercy and love made us alive in Christ, not because of anything we did, but entirely because of His grace. We are not renovation projects. We are His new creation, His masterpiece, crafted with purpose. And that purpose matters because grace does not simply rescue us from something. It recreates us for something.</p>