The “Other” Amazing Grace Hymn: “By Grace I’m Saved, Grace Free and Boundless” (#150)

Francis Schaeffer used to warn us about using “God words” too casually, hardly thinking about them at all as they rolled off our lips, words that we assume we and our hearers understand, when we actually have only a very simplistic and shallow comprehension of them.  He had in mind such words as “faith,” “saved,” “holy,” and even “grace.” We see that failure to comprehend, or even think seriously, about grace in the popularity of singing “Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound,” with no thought at all about what the grace means.

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