Reconciling the Reconciled

One of the most significant threats to our faith is the subtle temptation to go soft on the truth of scripture. It isn’t an outright denial or rejection of God’s Word, it’s a shaving off of the hard edges and an easing up on the personal demands in order to make it more accommodating to our lifestyles and conducive to our material aspirations. What Dietrich Bonhoeffer called cheap grace. How serious is that threat to our faith? How concerned ought we to be about it, both for ourselves and others? If 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, “Reconciling the Reconciled”, is any indication, the tenor and strength of Paul’s appeal ought to make us sit up and take notice.