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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 media's ear--and out of one man's grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the church's great distinctive. It's 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 What's So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. 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 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 today's 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 grace's 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, What's So Amazing About Grace?

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About the Author

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies. Yancey lives with his wife in Colorado. Learn more at philipyancey.com    

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Product details

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Zondervan; Revised ed. edition (February 1, 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 8173621810

ISBN-13: 978-0310245650

ASIN: 0310245656

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1 x 1 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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4.7 out of 5 stars

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This book wrecked me.Ignore the negative comments and negative reviews. What interests me most about those reviews is that this book is all about grace and the people leaving negative reviews still miss the point. They don't give grace on what they disagree with.Phillip Yancey's use of stories and modernized parables help paint a picture of grace that, if I'm honest, I knew already...but I never really envisioned. This book and the idea he presents are both game changers for the Christian community, and in our society today it couldn't be more relevant.Read this book. Buy this book. Live this book.

This is the fifth book I've read by Philip Yancey, and they've all been sizzlingly alive and inspiring. Many types of Christian books annoy me: they're either heavy-handed and doctrinal, or simplistic and trite. In contrast, Yancey stands on the same scruffy ground the rest of us stand on, and he tells stories about people we might know or might be. Sadly, the history of the Church contains much ungrace, which has driven and still drives people away from Christ. Yancey says, "...the Gospels make clear the connection: God forgives my debts as I forgive my debtors. The reverse is also true: Only by living in the stream of God's grace will I find the strength to respond with grace toward others." Yancey also points out the danger of mixing politics and religion. Though the book was published in 1997, it rings hauntingly true today: "...while a coziness between church and state may be good for the state, it is bad for the church....The state which runs by the rules of ungrace, gradually drowns out the church's sublime message of grace." Yancy has the courage - and the humility - to stare straight-faced at both church and society and describe in plain English what he sees, and why God cares.

Trans-formative. I thought I knew Grace but I did not. This book is thorough. It could almost have been a lot shorter of a book but the stories in it do make it for an interesting history lesson also which I am enjoying. I have to say this book is transforming my paradigm about being a Christ follower, being an effective father of 2, loving husband, and as a community leader. Philip Yancey was a recommended read from a friend - and I have pretty much decided I like is writing style and what comes across as honesty to himself about his own life and the experiences he has had trying to follow Jesus' teachings himself.

This is one of the most inspirational books that I have ever read in my life and if you're looking for God and Grace this is the perfect book to explain and help you grow in HIS outstanding love for you and I.Highly recommended as a self read or a gift for someone going through a hard time. This book was so beautiful that (despite hording all of my favorite books) I couldn't help but pass it on.

This book came highly recommended by my wife and from a member of Peace Church. Yancey says that he would rather convey grace than explain it, which is why he writes with stories rather than syllogisms (Yancey 1997, 16).There are certainly a lot of stories in this book. Part one is about the sweetness of grace. Yancey tells the story of Babette, a woman who served as a housekeeper for twelve years for two sisters, Martina and Philippa. The sisters had lived difficult, graceless lives. Babette wins the lottery, and the sisters fear she will leave. But Babette spends all the money on a lavish French feast for Philippa and Martina and their guests in honor of the anniversary of their father's birth. Grace came to them in the form of a feast and in the form of a loyal friend (Yancey 1997, 19-26).Yancey tells the story of Peter Greaves, who was angry at God and life because he contracted leprosy while stationed in India. But he testifies that he experienced grace through music while at Bible college. He played piano for hours on end. He also experienced grace through the beauty of nature, as he walked through pine forests, watching dragonflies and flocks of birds. He then experienced grace by falling in love and these experiences gradually led him back to his childhood faith in Christ (Yancey 1997, 40-42).Yancey also tells a modern day version of the prodigal son story, where a teenage girl runs away from her home in Traverse City, Michigan. She heads down to Detroit, gets into drugs and prostitution to make ends meet. But she misses her family. One day, she writes her parents and tells them that she will be taking the bus home. She arrives at the Traverse City bus station at midnight. She is shocked to discover her family and about forty other relatives waiting for her, wearing party hats and saying "Welcome home!" She hugs her dad and tries to apologize, but he says "There's no time for apologies. We need to get home and celebrate. There's a big banquet waiting for you" (Yancey 1997, 49-51). That's grace.Part two deals with breaking the cycle of "ungrace." Yancey tells stories of people who lived bitter, miserable lives because they harbored anger and could not forgive (Yancey 1997, 75-81). Yancey says that we should forgive because forgiveness offers a way for us to start broken relationships over and to heal the hurts of the past (Yancey 1997, '98-99). He tells the story of Jean Valjean, the French prisoner from Les Miserables, whose life was transformed by grace (Yancey 1997, 101-2).There is also the story of Rebecca, whose clergy husband cheated on him with a woman named Julianne. She was bitter, but she phoned them one day and "I choose to forgive you." Years later, Julianne phoned Rebecca to say that the man had been doing the same thing to her and she needed someone to tell. The women got together, and Rebecca led Julianne to Christ, and they became friends (Yancey 1997, 104-6). That is grace.The rest of the book is in the same vein, pictures of grace, mixed with the occasional picture of ungrace. The researcher has already used the Les Miserables story in a recent sermon, but this book is a veritable treasure trove of grace stories that can be mined for future sermons. But taken as a whole, What's So Amazing About Grace? was one of the most enjoyable and heartwarming books on the reading plan.

What's so amazing about Grace? Without Grace we are nothing. Grace is the forgiveness of ALL sins through Jesus Christ. Can you imagine what that would feel like?This book is a must read for the Christian community, because most of us have forgotten or never really knew what Jesus was talking about.For non-Christians it's an introduction to the greatest gift mankind has ever been given. Free to all, no church membership necessary - in fact, you may actually access the gift more readily. We, Christians are not so free with dispensing Grace, a gift from God, through Jesus Christ.You cannot come away from this book unchanged, it's impossible, I beg you to read this book, you deserve to know that you are loved regardless of your past.

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