About the blogger…

About the blogger
My name is Neil Robbie, I serve as a Christian minister in the town of West Bromwich, England. I was drawn to Christ in my mid-twenties under the ministry of William Still in Aberdeen, Scotland. I lived and worked as a structural engineer for 6 years in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore before training for what I do now at Oak Hill College, London. The church where I am vicar, Holy Trinity, is in a multi-cultural parish where many people in the area are South Asian. Prior to starting here in March 2009 I was curate at St Luke’s, Wolverhampton.

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 faith in Christ on the cross, especially what it means to be counted as righteous, 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.