CULTURE
Common language, customs, values, beliefs, and behaviors.
Common symbols, holidays, celebrations…
“What you celebrate you elevate.”
GRACE CULTURE
What are the signs?
1. We are saved by grace.
Ephesians 2:8-10
2. Forgiveness
Ephesians 1:7
Colossians 1:14
Acts 5:31; 13:38; 26:18
3. Freedom
2 Corinthians 3:17 (ref.)
Galatians 5:1
4. Teaches us to deny ungodliness, worldly lust, and live soberly, righteously & Godly in the present age
Titus 2:11-12
5. Mercy
Hebrews 8 & 10
“I will be merciful to their unrighteousness & their sins & iniquities I will remember no more.”
6. Giving Hearts
2 Corinthians 8:3-7 (NKJV)
“Abound in giving grace.”
7. Humility
James 4:4-10 (NKJV)
Submit = Humility
Resist Satan = Humility
Draw near to God = Humility
Cleanse your hands (repent) = Humility
Single-minded = Humility
1 Peter 5:5-10 (NKJV)