For the Love of God: Our Life Expression to His Exquisite Love
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:8-10) True salvation does produce a response from the Christian! While we know that salvation is by grace through faith, we cannot escape the reality that this salvation proves itself out in peoples live in a particular way. A full reading of Ephesians 2 definitely communicates this to us. To understand the writings of Paul, we must understand the context and culture to which he was writing. Otherwise, we will misread Paul through the eyes of our 21 st century setting. This is the major problem with the contemporary church and modern theologians. We miss the true meaning of the themes and times and thus misapply it to ourselves. For example, Paul addressed things by taki