The Law and The Gospel

There’s a moment many people can point to—a quiet realization, or a sudden unraveling—when the weight they’ve been carrying is finally named. Not just the pressure to succeed or to be good, but more exhausting burden of trying to become someone worthy of God’s love and approval. And yet, even after encountering the freeing truth of the gospel—that God’s grace is given, not earned—that old instinct to strive, perform, and measure ourselves never quite disappears.

In The Law and the Gospel: A Theology for Sinners (and Saints), Charlotte Donlon invites us into that tension. In her essay she describes her awakening to grace to the ongoing struggle of actually living in it . . .