Didactic Poems-( Grace)Freely You Received, Freely Give

**fennywest** Wed 09 Jun 2010, 8:05 am

Didactic poems are designed to teach a particular truth, doctrine or subject.
For example the poem below is focused on the grace of God.
So think of a subject or issue you are passionate about, do a research on it and couch it in a poem and your result is a didactic poem.
Webster defined it as: d'esigned or intended to teach b : intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment <didactic poetry'
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God has granted us His grace
Which is unmerited favour
So that we can see His face
Despite our unworthiness

For this Grace to be received
It has to be accepted
In Christ, you have to believe
Then you will not be rejected.

God has given us great riches
Through Christ who died for us all
Let’s come consume his dainties
By bowing down at the cross.

This grace we received freely
Not to sell hoard or withhold
But to reach out with freely
That the Lord may be glorified.

Did you know that grace is:
God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense?
God’s Redemption At Christ’s Expense?
God’s Reconciliation At Christ’s Expense?

]10Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. 1Pet4:10

1 Corinthians 15
The Resurrection of Christ

¹Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. ²By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

³For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. ⁶After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. ⁷Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, ⁸and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

⁹For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

1Cor15:1-11.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ^[size=9]9not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephe.2:8-9