a glimpse.

I don't think I'll ever see this sight again.

Today at Willowcreek, at least 100 people got baptized. People from baptism class and even last minutes from the congregation. We sang Amazing Grace while watching them and for some reason, I started tearing up (on a day when I was wearing make up too bah).

This is what grace is.

God climbed down the ladder in order for us to meet him face to face and understand that all He's doing for us is a

gift.

The only price we have to pay afterwards is to keep showing people what this grace is.

I've been reading the book "Radical" by David Platt and it has been hitting me hard. But what hit me the most was this part:

" 'God loves me' is not the essence of biblical Christianity. Because if 'God loves me' is the message of Christianity, then who is the objective of Christianity?

... Me.

... We are not the end of the gospel; God is.
God centers on himself, even in our salvation. Remember his words in Ezekiel: he saves us, not for our sake, but for the sake of his holy name.

... If this is true, we may wonder, then does this make God selfish? ... At the very moment God exalted someone or something else, he would no longer be the great God worthy of all glory in all the universe, which he is." (70-71)

"The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response." (20-21)

"...we had missed what is radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable. We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves." (7)