Grace, part 1

Grace is one of the most amazing aspects of God’s character. To overlook grace is to overlook the true character of God.
What exactly is grace? The words "grace" and "gracious" can be found almost 202 times in Scripture. The word comes from the Greek word "charis''. Grace refers to that heartfelt attraction to someone. The Greeks used the word to express generosity, without thought of a reward or favor from the other person.
Christians exalted the word to mean "a gift." It came to mean the "gift of salvation", "the kindness and love of God in forgiving us and saving us."
A person has "charisma," meaning "one with an attractive, appealing personality, magnetism about them."
Probably the best known meaning of this important Biblical term is "unmerited favor" or "divine favor" a favor freely bestowed upon those totally unable to return the favor.
God’s grace takes an aggressive posture in the mercy He shows on those who are without merit. Grace demonstrates the goodness of God toward those who deserve His wrath, judgment, and death. Yet, on the basis of the substitutionary death of Christ, God's grace provides a way for God to offer the free gift of eternal life to a guilty sinner. That is aggressive grace.
God’s grace is totally unmerited favor dispensed at great cost.
Titus 3:4-5 NKJV "But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,"
Grace expresses God’s love toward others who are totally unlovely, and unworthy. Grace is receiving God’s great mercy and love when we are filthy and dead in sin.
Ephesians 2:4-5 NKJV "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)”