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What's So Amazing About Grace?
What's So Amazing About Grace? | Philip Yancey
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In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, "I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge. . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them." His words caught the medias ear--and out of one mans grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the churchs great distinctive. Its the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else--for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. In Whats So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is Gods 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 lifes 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 sin, says Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. It forgives the unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. It loves todays AIDS-ridden addict as much as the tax collector of Jesus day. In his most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true portraits of graces life-changing power. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. He asks, How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, Whats So Amazing About Grace?
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OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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This book changed me life! I read it twenty years ago, and I am different everyday because of it. It is easily the most influential book I have ever read.

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Lets talk emotionally charged, yet forced reading for a bit, shall we? Required reading for class should not make my heart hurt this bad. A book I would not have picked up on my own, this book is making me think. I don't know if this is good or bad.....

Libby1 (((Hugs))). What about it is making your heart hurt? (If that's not too personal to ask.) I hope you find the resolution that you need. ❤ 8y
Cinfhen Sounds fascinating! 8y
AprilMae @Libby1 Its full of short story snippets. I've so far read about a women who prostitutes her elementary age daughter out, about terrible events in the holocaust , and a girl who ran away and became a hooker. 8y
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AprilMae @Libby1 it's interesting but with how fast I need to read it for a 7week class it just is a lot to swallow in such a short time. 8y
haileybean I feel like a book like that you need to give the time to process the stories. Especially if they're true accounts. :( do you think it's a book you would revisit in the future? 8y
AprilMae @haileyhugsbooks nope. You know my feelings on religious books so this isn't a "I'll re-read when I can appreciate it" type of book. I've put it in the do it cause I have to. Much like Catcher in the Rye but not as much hatred. 8y
daf_fields This book rocked my worldview the first time I read it, nearly 20 years ago. It really opened my mind and changed my perspective on people whose beliefs are different from my own. 8y
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My religion class for school is helping me reach my #bookishresolutions by having us read this book! Not far in yet so I've formed no opinions. We shall see how it goes #branchingout #readbeyondyourcomfortzone

LauraBeth I like Philip Yancy. He was one of the few Evangelical Christians to call out Trump: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trjK4t3M2E8 8y
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