"Our relationship to God - that we can boldly come to God saying "Our Father" - is due to God's choice of us, rather than our choice of God. God's choice of us is a gift that we often speak of in the church as "grace" - amazing grace. It's amazing particularly in a culture in which we are taught to believe that anything important is earned, achieved, worked for. Yet faith in Jesus as Lord can only come as a gift" (William H. Willimon & Stanley Hauerwas, Lord, Teach Us: The Lord's Prayer and the Christian Life, 26).
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