What is the Grace-Energized Life?

This week I had lunch and someone stopped by our table and asked, “Could you define ‘grace-energized' for me?” I did briefly there at that restaurant, but as I thought and prayed about it, I decided that it would be good to pause one week and back up to look at the underlying doctrine of progressive or personal sanctification which is what grace-energized living is all about.

As we open to Philippians 2:12-15 consider this question, “Did you know that spiritual growth is not automatic--but requires our cooperation with God?”

Grace-energized living means our personal, daily application of the spiritual disciplines. That is what God states in our passage this morning, both His work and ours, side-by-side: “Work out your own salvation, For it is God who works in you”