White River Christian Church

Grace is God’s unearned favor and generous action toward His people…

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Ephesians 1:4-5

Grace begins with God, not with us!

This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Ephesians 1:5b

Grace begins with God, not with us!

He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding. God has now revealed to us his mysterious will regarding Christ—which is to fulfill his own good plan. And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth.
Ephesians 1:7-10

Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.
Ephesians 1:11

Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
1 Peter 1:4

And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people.
Ephesians 1:13b-14a

Grace begins with God, not with us!

YOU have to believe.

YOU have the Holy Spirit living and moving in you.

And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:30

He did this so we would praise and glorify him.
Ephesians 1:14b

Grace is God’s unearned favor and generous action toward His people…

Grace is God’s unearned favor and generous action toward His people…who deserve judgment rather than blessing.