By the Grace of God.: The power of the Gospel to bring us out of religion and into relationship with the Father we never knew. in Bloomington, MN

The shocking truth of the gospel, is that it is not God who distances himself from the Church because He is offended at her sin, but the Church who has consistently drawn back from the power of the full Gospel, because she is offended at God's generosity! Despite what you may have heard all your life, doing all the right things, is not the way into the right life. Such a message only leaves people empty and angry, because their faith has actually been in themselves, in what they are doing for God, instead of in what He has done for them. At the end of Jesus' story of the prodigal son, the father stands pleading with his elder son, to lay down his attempts to earn what the father has freely given. This is the same beautiful truth that the Holy Spirit is communicating to the Church in this hour, a Church labouring in the fields of religion; "Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours." (Luke 15:31) This booklet explores the power of what the apostle Paul called "the gospel of grace" to bring us out of religion and into relationship, with the father we never knew.