When a new website launches, or when a website launches a new feature, they commonly go public for a period of time as what is called a "beta" site. For example, Google for years called their email feature—Gmail—a beta site. The idea of a beta site is it's a test site that is available for the public to use, but with the understanding that you may find bugs in it. The site is not making any claims to have everything worked out to perfection. If you find a problem with a beta site, you think to yourself, Oh yeah! This is a beta site. Maybe I should send the designers an email so they know they still have a problem here. If you are a mature person, you don't get angry with a beta site if you find a broken webpage. A beta site is a "grace-expected" web site. The site is counting on you to give them grace.

Applying this idea to the Christian life, we will be more like Christ if we treat the people we live and work with each day as beta Christians. Like us, they are all a work in progress. They all need grace. None of them is perfect yet. We should go through every day expecting we will need to give grace to others all day long.