(Bonus) Shirts and Skins: When Grace Refuses to Take Sides

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We love our sides. Teams, tribes, doctrines, denominations—lines in the sand that give us a sense of belonging, but also someone to fight against. From childhood football games of shirts versus skins to the way churches police communion tables, we learn to divide the world into “us” and “them.”

But here’s the scandal of grace: God doesn’t play for our team. In Jesus, God kept crossing the lines we defend—eating with sinners, healing enemies, and telling stories where outsiders were the heroes. Grace, by her very nature, is disloyal to our factions. She crawls under fences, sneaks into enemy camps, and embraces those we’d rather exclude.

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy wrestles with his own history of drawing hard lines and the freedom that comes when those lines dissolve. What if God has already taken everyone’s side? What if grace insists on showing up at both tables—ours, and theirs?

If you’ve ever been wearied by division, or longed for a love bigger than sides, this conversation is for you.

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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.