From Ligonier, Dr. Michael Reeves

Those who have accepted that God saves by His grace alone have found the message to be one of unutterable sweet liberation. Martin Luther wrote, “I felt as if I was born again, led to Paradise through open gates,” and so it remains today. The Reformers’ tenacious insistence on grace alone is no relic of the history books or thought of as an embarrassment and as the sorry squabble of persnickety theologians. It remains as the only message of ultimate liberation, the message with the deepest power to make humans unfurl and flourish. For by grace alone all those who know themselves as failures can know not just a bit of enabling from God, helping them to do a little better. They can know a wholly new and victorious identity in Christ. They can know assurance, relief from guilt, and a sweet intimacy with an almighty father who cares for them. And knowing that they begin to find a hearty desire rising up in them to follow the one who is the source of all grace and every good. Where once they would have attempted holiness out of a desperate desire to earn eternal life, with this gospel they do so out of a heart transformed to want Christ, to see the beauty of his kindness, his goodness, his generosity and all his holy ways.

Dr. Reeves is President of Union School of Theology, in the UK with branches in other continents.