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Whats So Amazing About Grace?
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On the heels of Philip Yancey's best-selling "The Jesus I Never Knew" comes his equally important and tautological treatment of grace, the engine that powers Christian love and pushes evil away with f
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Mention the word "grace" and what immediately comes to mind for most of us is a bagpipe wailing the solemn notes of "Amazing Grace." The grace of which Philip Yancey writes is the freely given and unmerited favor and love of God. This grace seems a remote, almost sentimental concept, without a place in our lives or our society. It is a vague, slippery thing to us, probably because we seem to experience grace so rarely and have managed to leech the word of meaning. But Philip Yancey has set about to rescue grace in his book What's So Amazing About Grace? This grace is the true message of Jesus. All faiths have virtues and creeds and justice and truth, but Jesus speaks merely of receiving the love that God has for us. Accepting it, not earning it or making ourselves worthy of it. And frankly, accepting something we have not earned or are not worthy of is not an easy thing for most of us. In truth, grace is both utterly simple and utterly confounding. Little by little, Yancey guides us into a clearer understanding of grace by using stories, in much the same way Jesus did. We read stories of both grace and ungrace at work in people's lives. Sadly, it is stories of ungrace that are more prevalent today, the current culture wars painful acknowledgments of ungrace in our lives as Christians in this country. Yancey helps us understand that ungrace is that state of being in which self-righteousness and pride are a result of thinking that we have somehow earned God's approval and may now stand in judgment in his behalf. Philip Yancey was awarded the Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year award for this book in 1998 by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Readers concurred with this decision, making this book an immediate bestseller. Believers and nonbelievers alike should accept Yancey's challenge to become agents of grace rather than agents of vengeance or judgment or anger. In truth, we are each starving for grace, ready to grasp it tightly. And it is through grace that all other hungers--for justice, for righteousness, for love--are satisfied. Yancey opens his book by telling us that "grace" is the last best word, and in What's So Amazing About Grace?, he proves that he's right. --Patricia Klein
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Pages 304
Dimensions: Length: 9" Width: 6" Height: 1.1"
Weight: 1.25 lbs.
Release Date Oct 10, 1997
Publisher ZONDERVAN BOOKS #42
ISBN 0310213274
EAN 9780310213277
UPC 025986213275
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 | A True Gift! Jan 22, 2007 |
| This book is a true gift of joy and confirmation to believers in the grace of Christ. Philip Yancey has an elegance about his writting that fits the topic of grace perfectly. I came away changed and grateful. | | | | Amazing book Jan 11, 2007 |
| My bible study group decided to do the "What's so amazing about Grace" bible study after one of the members had read the book. This is a study that every church should look at doing no matter what the denomination. Phillip Yancey gives incredible insights into a facet of Christian religion that is too often overlooked. It brings up hard questions and generates great discussion. It will truly change the way most people view the world. | | | | A Remarkable and Thorough Classic on Grace Jan 9, 2007 |
Grace is what sets Christianity about from other religions--but is that the message that the unbelieving world hears? Or are they often subjected to our systems of rules and morality? Phillip Yancey deftly chronicles his own "ungraceful" upbringing in a very strict church of the 60's as a backdrop toward his journey to grace.
What I particularly enjoy about Yancey's work is that besides being an expert wordsmith and master communicator, is that he weaves in real-lifes stories that make you think deeply about issues of faith. He asks questions that most Christians are afraid to ask.
I can't say that I agree with all of his conclusions. I probably have a half-dozen theological differences with Yancey, but on the most important subject of our faith: grace, I believe Yancey is right on the money. Grace is not fair. Grace is almost a scandal in our minds. Grace doesn't really make logical sense.
Read this book, it will challenge your view of grace. | | | | Wonderful! Dec 7, 2006 |
This book is absolutely fantastic. The unique message of Christianity is in fact the message of grace. I have had this book on my shelf for several years and just read it recently - I wish I had not waited so long. As a theology student who is accustomed to reading massive books on theology, it can be easy to lose sight of the sweetness of the message of God's grace through Christ. This is truly a book for the brand new Christian as well as the person who has known Jesus for decades.
The only point of difference I would take with Yancey is some of the statements he makes concerning the Catholic Church - which does not teach the message that people are saved by Jesus Christ through faith alone. Anytime you add things to the message of grace alone, through faith alone (baptism, confirmation, penance, etc) you dillute the power of the gospel. Other than that, I can not recommend it enough! | | | | How Sweet the Sound. Oct 27, 2006 |
| One of the greatest mysteries of the life is grace. Grace is basically receiving goodness which we do not deserve (whereas mercy can then be considered as not receiving what we deserve). Grace is a mysterious thing, but it is also an extremely powerful and life-altering force. There's a reason that John Newton entitled his famous hymn "Amazing Grace" because there grace is such a wonderful, marvelous, and mysterious thing that it is something that can only come via God. Yancey attempts to explore exactly WHAT'S SO AMAZING ABOUT GRACE? in this book and he does a spectacular job. The book is filled with both stories about lives lived in and through grace and lives lived without it. The contrast is amazing. Yancey's book is directed towards Christians, those who consider themselves followers and disciples of Jesus. I have often wondered why we Christians do not show the world more love and compassion, more grace. Even those who deny any existence of any sort of divine power acknowledge that we live in a screwed up world full of hate, anger, violence, and danger and long for a better place. Even though we Christians know that the world will continue a downward spiral until the return of Jesus, that does not exempt us from being faithful ambassadors and vessels of grace. WHAT'S SO AMAZING ABOUT GRACE? is one of the most compelling arguments for living a grace-filled life that I have ever read and in reading it one can see why Yancey has become such a powerful Christian voice in our post-modern times. It should be read by anyone who calls themselves a Christian and even those who are not Christians can benefit from reading it. | | | Write your own review about Whats So Amazing About Grace?
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