But anybody who belongs to an organized religious body will probably get the joke. From the immortal Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
But anybody who belongs to an organized religious body will probably get the joke. From the immortal Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
Gold, Lars. I love it.
Of course, they probably didn’t have to pay her as much as they would for a competent secretary. In other words they were dealing with cheap Grace.
Ho ho!
Grace is a free gift – how could anything be cheaper than that?
To assume that “free” is the same as “cheap” is the classic misunderstanding. One might as well say that “free speech” is necessarily the same as “cheap speech.” It could be, but it could also be very costly indeed. The classic exposition on the subject is Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship.
As an addendum, Bonhoeffer paid very highly for grace in his own life.