Grace Against Meritocracy - Progressive (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Our culture worships meritocracy: you get what you earn, you deserve what you have. But Ephesians 2:8-9 subverts this idol: "Not by works, so that no one can boast." Grace undermines the myth that the successful earned their success and the struggling deserve their struggles. If salvation is gift, what else might be? Health, opportunity, ability—all unearned. Grace produces humility before the poor, not judgment. Those who know they received everything as gift find it harder to look down on those with less.