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As Christians, we talk about grace all the time, but what even is grace?

In this month's episode of the Connecting podcast, Paul Tripp and

Shelby Abbott dive into part three of their conversation on the marvelous grace of our Lord.

If you miss the first two episodes on grace, check out the Connecting podcast episodes 18 and 19.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your

sake he became poor so that you, by his poverty, might become rich.

Second Corinthians 8.9.

Here's Paul and Shelby on grace.

So when we do these podcasts, I've had this habit of bringing in something that's significant or meaningful or historical.

And I have in my hands a letter that I wrote to Llewela's parents on the occasion of me being hired for my first ministry position.

This was written in September of 1971.

The reason it's a letter is, sorry, this is how old I am, there were no computers and there

were no cell phones.

And it is a really sweet, detailed description of this first opportunity of pastoral ministry

that God had given me.

I was 20.

And I look at my job description here and think only but God's grace would a 20-year-old ever be able to do this.

But it brought back just wonderful memories and sort of caused me to walk down through

the years and remember this incredible ministry journey that God has brought me on. I know I'm

still a bit of a mess and I know that God didn't call me because I was able,

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