Demanding Grace?
RC Sproul on confusing grace and justice. My favorite illustration of how callous we have become with respect to the mercy, love, and grace of God comes from the second year of my teaching career, when I was given the assignment of teaching two hundred and fifty college freshman an introductory course on the Old Testament . On the first day of the class, I gave the students a syllabus and I said: "You have to write three short term papers , five pages each. The first one is due September 30 when you come to class, the second one October 30, and the third one November 30. Make sure that you have them done by the due date, because if you don't, unless you are physically confined to the infirmary or in the hospital, or unless there is a death in the immediate family, you will get an F on that assignment. Does everybody understand that?" They all said, "Yes." On September 30, two hundred and twenty-five of my students came in with their term papers. There were t...