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American Idol’s Chris Sligh on Theology

Written by Russ Jones

Monday, 26 February 2007

Sligh's Theology Lesson

Chris Sligh

American Idol contestant Chris Sligh (28) currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina, and is the son of missionaries. Sligh spent 10 years with his family in Germany. Since attending Bob Jones University, he has traveled and performs with the band, Half Past Forever.

Sligh has a blog called Theological Digressions, in which he makes some observations about his life as a follower of Christ. Here’s an excerpt from his post on “Forgetful of Grace."

The big question I’ve always had is this: when does grace end and responsibility begin? I think we as Christians have to struggle with this. I’ve never had a Christian friend who is honest who doesn’t struggle with the balance between grace and responsibility or consequence. When do we cross the line of abusing grace and discarding liberty for freedom?

But in asking these questions, I think that we miss the point of what grace is. Grace is not overlooking sin and poor choices. It is looking those poor choices straight in the face and saying that His grace is enough to get past them. It is being able to forgive without forgetting, because as humans we don’t forget. We don’t have the ability to seperate it as far as the East is from the West. Yet Christ’s grace is so much better than my feeble attempts to explain it. His grace does seperate it from his memory; He doesn’t remember my faults.

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