Down, Down, Down into Grace

Summary

John Piper explores the concept of God's grace as an unrepayable gift, emphasizing that every human action is fundamentally dependent on and empowered by divine grace. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 9:8, he argues that believers cannot "pay back" God through obedience, since even acts of obedience require further grace and only increase one's spiritual debt. The key takeaway is to abandon the "payback mentality" and instead embrace a posture of continual, humble dependence on God's inexhaustible grace.