The balance between justice and mercy

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The Church in the 21st century needs to have a balance of mercy and holiness, grace and truth. This requires a bipolar mentality that emphasizes the call to holiness while also understanding that the Christian walk is a journey of gradual sanctification. Churches and leaders need to have a pastoral heart and be aware of the struggle of the believer's journey. There will always be a tension between these two positions, but we need to imitate God's balance of justice and mercy. Psalm 85:10 and John 1:14 show us that mercy and truth meet and grace and truth are united in the character of Jesus Christ. The Church needs to reflect this balance in our treatment of sinners, ourselves, and others.

Devotionals based on Galatians 6

1 The Church must have a balanced position

2 Consider yourself lest you too be tempted

3 Breaking ties takes time and patience

4 Restoration Churches Needed

5 God is a God of mercy

6 When we sin against God there is always some kind of cost

7 The terrible cost of sin

8 Fall into the trap of sin

9 The balance between justice and mercy

10 The Lord's mercy can provoke repentance

11 Trade destructive patterns for healthy ones

12 The balance between the instruments we use

God's call to the Church in the 21st century is: to be a Church of balance, a Church that can address the needs of this culture so complex and so skeptical about the Church of Jesus Christ and Christians, and so suspicious of our motivations and sincerity in a way that is understandable, gracious, engaging, and leads them to consider the promises and claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And we have said that one of the qualities that this Church must have is the ability to mix mercy with holiness, grace with truth. It is about an ability to maintain what I call a bipolar mentality, which on the one hand emphasizes holiness and the call to integrity and behavior in accordance with the Gospel, but on the other hand is also capable of understanding that the Christian walk, the believer's journey is a journey of continuous and gradual sanctification, a continual drawing closer to the image of Jesus Christ.

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