A Question of grace

I am deeply troubled.  In the fast few months I have read and heard statements regarding the grace of God that leave the impression that you can just believe in Jesus and be saved and no action is required on our part. One such statement even declared that repentance is a "work" and therefore not required under grace. Every time I hear or read these things, the scriptures that come to mind are in Romans and James. "Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! " Rms 6:1 and "Faith without works is a dead faith" James 2:20 Just read the whole second chapter.

I know what the Word of God says but I am not eloquent enough to give a rebuttal to these people. However I have friends who are and they have done an excellent job in stating the case of Grace as defined by the Word of God in response to the statements. 

This does not relieve my heart though. I have been a teacher of the Word of God in my home church and I know that those who teach are held accountable for what they teach. I want to to teach things in what I call real people terms; terms someone who has not been in church can understand. I had to do that with my chemotherapy teaching, putting medical and nursing terms into real people terms.

 I have thought about this for a couple of days and cannot get away from it.
I am going to start a personal study on grace, faith and works/ the law and I am going to share it online. and I want to write it out in an understandable format that is solely based on the Word.

Those that want to join me on this journey are welcome to. I have no problem with in put from others. The only thing I ask is if you have a different opinion from what I post , give me scripture, more than one to back it up. We are given the whole counsel  of scripture for our instruction and I have always found a multitude of problems when you take one scripture out of context and try to make doctrine out of it. It all flows together.

This will be a weekly study. I will start with grace. The journey begins this week in the book of Romans.