This was something my dad sent me by email that I thought was worth passing along to the Internet:

There are a great many Christians who do not understand what God intended by the word ‘grace’:

• To the Calvinist, grace is something God forces on you.
• To the Arminian, God offers a salvation by grace that is yours to both choose and to lose.
• To the Open Theist, grace causes God to have the best of intentions, but if it doesn’t work out that way, He just can’t help it, and He didn’t know it wouldn’t work out, but at least you can relate to Him better because He’s more like you in those respects.
• To the Charismatic, grace is real if and when you can feel it, to the extent it’s revealed to you.
• To the Legalist, grace means that God isn’t quite as uptight and picky as He once was, but you’d better not forget that He’s still pretty uptight and picky – so get to work!

But to God, grace is an infinite aspect of His character, which is now the reigning principle, by which He enables and motivates all that we do, and in which we are to grow now, and which is so truly awesome that He will show – visibly demonstrate – His grace to us for all eternity.