What's So Amazing About Grace?

If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Yancey sets grace in the midst of life’s stark images, tests its mettle against horrific “ungrace.” Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust? Can it triumph over the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan? Should any grace at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized seventeen young men? Grace does not excuse wrong, says Yancey, but it treasures the wrongdoer. Grace is the church’s great distinctive. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. It forgives the unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. “I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge …” In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. In his most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true portraits of grace’s life-changing power. And forgave. In What’s So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to evil and touching it with mercy and hope. He asks, How can Christians contend graciously with moral is

--Patricia Klein. Philip Yancey was awarded the Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year award for this book in 1998 by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. 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. This grace seems a remote, almost sentimental concept, without a place in our lives or our society. Sadly, it is stories of ungrace that are more prevalent today, the current culture wars painful acknowledgments of ungrace in our

Helped me learn to forgive Booklover This helped me immensely with learning to forgive, which is one of the hardest things to do. But the alternative of holding a grudge is worse. The need for grace is so necessary for our relationships to not deteriorate. We will always be wounded and offended by others' sinful nature that it is grace that allows us to move forward and stop the pattern of hurt. This book sobered me with the need to show grace rather than judgment because that is why we ourselves are in favor with God through the blood of Jesus Christ.. Annette Ciaravino said Read This Again and Again!. Every Christian needs to read this book! In fact, they need to read it again and again and again! This book challenged my thinking and forced me to do some very serious heart searching. WARNING! You will want to hate this book because it is painful to look into the mirror and see potentially ugly things about yourself. However, if you truly want to live the way God intends you to live, if you want to love the way God intends you to love, then do not throw this book out the window. Read it slowly and take the time to pray about what Philip Yancey is sharing. If you push religious mindsets out of the way and l. Evelyn said Seeing the world through grace tinted lenses. What is the thing that distinguishes Christianity from the world's other religions? Grace. Other religions teach how to earn your way to God. Christianity is God reaching down and offering the gift of grace.