[SoothingDave]

Dave I believe in santification being an ongoing process in the life of the saved..He makes us more like himself..that is HIS plan...and has been His plan since before the foundation of the earth, that we be conformed to His image ..But it is his grace at work in us not our effort.

If it is not our effort, does that mean that you gain every day in this ongoing process whether you spent the day being kind to people and in prayer, or if you spent the day drinking and holding cockfights?

Dave I have asked and asked and not one Catholic has defined grace for me..how do you see Gods grace? What is it and how does it work?

Tomorrow, Mom. I gotta go. Short answer: Grace is God giving us what we need to reach perfection.

SD

[RnMomof7]

I would call it Gods unmerited favor can you go with that?..same time same place tomorrow:>)

[KennyV]

Grace is God's unmerited favor. Something given freely.

Eph 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

And the works that follow, verse 10

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

The works do not gain us salvation, that is the free gift of Grace. The works follow as we obey Him. As I walk in my Christian life I hope to improve, so I hope to be better than I am now. So I will change, hopefully for the better. But salvation is a free gift.