"It is one of the most important principles of biblical ethics" (+N.T. Wright)

H/T to Creedal Christian for this quote from +N.T. Wright.

It is one of the most important principles of biblical ethics, and one trampled in the mud again and again in contemporary debate: that God's grace meets us where we are, but God's grace, thank God, does not leave us where we are; that God accepts us as we are, but that God's grace, thank God, is always a transforming acceptance, so that in God's very act of loving us and wooing our answering love we are being changed; and, more dramatically, in baptism and all that it means we are actually dying and rising, leaving one whole way of life and entering upon a wholly different one.

Hmmm. Might there be a soon to be retired "bishop" over here in the states who needs to be reminded of this inconvenient principle?