An electronic periodical on the Jewish Christian scene in Israel, written from a Reformed point of view. News about events in Israel and the ministry in which the Maoz family is involved.
Most folk know that grace is unmerited favour.
All religions but Christianity insist that, however wonderful divine goodwill may be, man has to do something to deserve, achieve, enjoy or maintain it. Only Christianity, properly understood, is bold enough to say that God's good will toward man is divinely unilateral and that it is never within the reach of man to do anything that could put him within or beyond the reach of grace. In other words, Christianity is the only religion that acknowledges God to be Himself, free of any compulsion but that which is derived out of His own perfection, free of any obligation but that imposed by His nature. Muslims and the followers of Bahai, worshippers of idols and sophisticated Roman Catholic philosophers all insist that man is ultimately responsible for his own salvation because he must work to obtain or maintain it. Christianity informs us that our salvation is the result of God's sheer goodwill, not contingent upon anything man might do to make it his own.