“And grace will lead us home.” Oxford Language defines grace as a short prayer at a meal, and then as beauty and ease of movement. Surely that’s not what the hymn Amazing Grace is about? Dictionary.com defines grace as favor or goodwill. Closer, but not there yet. Merriam Webster gets it right, as far as we Southern Baptists are concerned. Grace is “unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.” Yes, that’s surely what John Newton had in mind when he wrote what is perhaps our most well known hymn.
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“And grace will lead us home.” Oxford Language defines grace as a short prayer at a meal, and then as beauty and ease of movement. Surely that’s not what the hymn Amazing Grace is about? Dictionary.com defines grace as favor or goodwill. Closer, but not there yet. Merriam Webster gets it right, as far as we Southern Baptists are concerned. Grace is “unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.” Yes, that’s surely what John Newton had in mind when he wrote what is perhaps our most well known hymn.