Grace-Driven Effort

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”



Grace-driven effort cannot be manufactured out of a sinful heart. Only a heart that has been raised with Christ can be propelled by grace-driven effort.



It isn't about behaviour modification. It's about the fruit of a heart regenerated by grace.



D.A. Carson, “For the Love of God” (Vol. 2).