Isn't Grace Enough?

When we began to develop our church logo a few months ago, we spent a few days experimenting with ideas and images that we thought would accurately express our church. After wrestling through piles of images and sketches, Gregg finally said to me, “Isn’t grace enough? Do we really need anything else?”

After crowdsourcing our idea we decided on this:

Grace. Strong. Powerful.

This weekend, our staff attended the HNL Leadership conference hosted by Hope Chapel West O’ahu. John Bevere was the featured speaker and he talked about grace.

He explained that when we think of grace, we often think of it as meaning the gift of forgiveness and divine God’s divine favor. Which is is. However, the greek word for grace in the New Testament, charis, also means the spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace (Stong’s Concordance).

God’s grace empowers us to live like Jesus—to live the life He created us to live. Grace is enough. In fact, it’s all that you need.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)