Grace Is Not To Be Experienced Alone

God designed his overcoming grace to flow through the church-through the people of God clustered in communities all around the globe. Someone had to share the gospel of grace with us in the first place and-once we've embraced the gospel-it's through the community of faith that God's Spirit works to kill the residue sin that remains in us. We cannot experience this grace alone any more than we can get married alone...God has saved you by grace alone, but he hasn't saved you to be alone. The grace that transforms us places us in a community that together overcomes.

Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones, Proof:Finding Freedom Through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace