Food for Thought (More Like Snacks Than a Meal Though)
“Stop trying to collect from people who can’t pay you.” -Joyce Meyer on unforgiveness
“Grace is not a doctrine. It’s a person.” -Joseph Prince
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“Stop trying to collect from people who can’t pay you.” -Joyce Meyer on unforgiveness
“Grace is not a doctrine. It’s a person.” -Joseph Prince
Hmmm…I’ll admit I don’t get Joe’s quote. It seems to me to be a false dichotomy. I mean, okay so grace is a person…what the heck does that mean? The minute he tries to explain what that means he is going to fall back on doctrine. I mean it’s a “cute” quote, but it doesn’t amount to much. BTW, who is Joseph Prince?
Joseph Prince is a pastor in Singapore. I’ve watched him on TV a handful of times. I dig him.
I didn’t actually hear the sermon in which he said this quote. I just heard this snippet. So, my explanation may or may not be legit.
I really don’t think he means for us to take this super literally. “Grace is not a doctrine.” Of course it is. But the reason I found it compelling is because I think it pushes us away from academizing grace, which I have personally been guilty of more often than I care to admit. I think there’s a difference between a “Jesus-centered-faith” and an “ideas-about-Jesus-centered-faith”. And I think Joseph Prince’s quote gently strikes that chord.