Transforming Grace

About the blogger
My name is Neil Robbie, I serve as a Christian minister in an inner city redevelopment area of Wolverhampton, England. I was drawn to Christ in my mid-twenties under the ministry of William Still. I worked as a structural engineer in Aberdeen, Cambridge, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore until starting theological training for pastoral ministry at Oak Hill College, London. My role in the church is assistant curate at St Luke’s, Blakenhall which is a multi-cultural parish where over half the population is South Asian. The area also has a growing number of African and Eastern European expatriates. The white population is largely, though not exclusively, socio-economic group C2 to E. My wife Amanda and I have three young children.

About the blog
As a new Christian I experienced God’s adoration for me because of Christ’s death for my sin. This focus on Christ crucified shifted during my time in the Far East and became mixed with a focus on what I did, said and thought. I knew that these things were unacceptable to God and so I felt constantly unacceptable to God. It was only during 2006 and 2007 that my grasp of acceptance by grace through Christ on the cross began to be renewed and with it came a transformation of my Christian life and view of ministry. Transforming grace is a blog about the difference the cross of Christ makes personally, to church and to inner city ministry.