Hosts respond: holiness requires effort alongside grace

The hosts argue that grace does not remove the believer's responsibility to change: conviction of sin points at sin so people die to it, James calls Christians to be doers of the word, and Jesus' commands (including his expansion of the law to thoughts in the Sermon on the Mount) assume people can respond. They conclude it is 'primary, secondary, cause, effect' - not either/or but both: Christ's work is the cause and obedient living the response. A joke detour on Revelation's 'king of kings and lord of lords' being written on his thigh (not a sty) closes the stretch.