Compelling Kindness & Goodness

Titus 3:4-5 puts it plainly. "When the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy". That is the ground we stand on. God moved toward us first. He did not wait for us to clean up. And so now, because of what He has done, we get to do the same for others.