the inexhaustible supply of God’s goodness whereby He does for us what we could never do for ourselves. It is His gift to us. Since all of God’s dealings with us are anchored in His grace, to miss grace is to miss God’s activity in history. We are saved by grace, and the only way we grow as Christians is by grace. Any serious study of grace will soon take us to Paul’s great letter to the Ephesians. Paul used the word grace twelve times in this letter, beginning with his trademark salutation, “Grace