Romans: Pure, unfiltered, 200-proof grace

The late minister Robert Farrar Capon said the reformation was a time when people went blind-staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar-full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, 200-proof grace—bottle after bottle of pure distillate Scripture that would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly.

The Bible is a message of God's grace from beginning to end, and the Epistle of Romans is one of those letters that makes the gospel of grace explicitly clear.

Drinking 200-proof alcohol would wreck you and could even kill you. Drinking from the fountain of grace we read about in Romans will do the same thing. The 200-proof, pure, free, unfiltered gospel of grace that takes you right where you are, will put our life of sin and rebellion to death while bringing forth a new man: unbound, unchained, to live a truly free and transformed life under a perfect King.

Martin Luther said, "Romans is the chief part of the New Testament and the purest gospel." He said that "every Christian should not only know it word for word, by heart, but also that they should occupy themselves with it every day, as the bread of the soul."

John Calvin stated about Romans, "If we understand this epistle, we have a passage opened to us to the understanding of the whole of Scripture."

Taste and experience the power of God for salvation for all who believe, the 200-proof strength of the gospel in Romans.