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Summary: Making abstractions concrete
Review: This is a wonderful book. It makes the ideas, values and concepts of Jesus come alive in terms of real people and real issues alive today. This is just the leverage I needed to go from thinking about change to living change.
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Summary: Without a doubt, the best book I have ever read.
Review: With the exception of the Bible, of course, this is without a doubt the best book I have ever read. If you can read...read this book. In a totally positive way, it changed my life.
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: One of the best books I have read in my life! People need to understand that standing firm in old positions can obsecure many folks from understanding Christ. Philip Yancey gives true grace a new meaning!
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Summary: God is so amazing about grace!
Review: I found that I had to take a hard look at myself, and how I "look" at other people. There is an old saying, "There but for the grace of God, go I", and I fear I was much inclined to use it. Now, it has been pointed out to me (though I had already heard it...how many times?...in Church, reading my Bible), that as a grace-full Christian, it is up to me to leave judgment, justice, "just desserts", all to God. Because if what I received was judgment, justice, what I deserve...I would have no future. But what I received was grace, and through me that same grace should be evident to all. Thanks to Philip Yancey for a very important lesson in how to "love our neighbors as ourselves"!
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Summary: Grace, the all-too-forgotten part of spirituality
Review: Yancey has a down-to-earth style that communicates with those of us who have been previously disenchanted with the lack of grace the world offers. If you enjoyed this book about grace, you may also enjoy Brennan Manning's "The Ragamuffin Gospel."
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Summary: Great! A must read for anyone
Review: This book really treats Grace as it should be. For Christians, it really tells us why we need to show grace to others. It was an eye-opener about things we do as Christians without realizing it. We judge others instead of accepting them as they are. God's grace accepts us just as we are and shows us that we should accept and show grace to others. It has made a deep impact on me.
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Summary: A prescription for proving your guilt as a Christian
Review: If we can truly understand God's love for us and His grace it will forever change how we live our lives. People who see us doing Christianity by loving our God and our neighbor cannot pass by unaffected.
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Summary: Should be called "What's So Graceful About Forgiveness"
Review: I appreciate what Yancey was trying to do with this book, but his depiction of God's Grace was not necessarily wrong, but extremely limited in scope. Yancey discusses the power of Forgiveness in the Christian life and how merely the knowledge of God's profound forgiveness changes us. Again, while this is not wrong, it is incomplete. Yancey does not get into the truly freeing aspect of God's grace that transform people's lives and heal the broken hearted: that we are new creations in Christ, that the indwelling spirit of Christ is what makes our forgiving others possible and that it is only by abiding in Christ that we can live a type of life that was formerly impossible (the Christian life). He hint at these things, but never gets into it. Clearly from the other reviews, this book has touched many people, but I found it frustrating. If anyone is interested in this topic check out Classic Christianity by Bob George. Classic Christianity is -- without at doubt -- THE BEST BOOK ON THIS TOPIC I HAVE EVER READ (excluding The Bible, of course). Georges book is a must read.
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Summary: Perhaps the best book I ever read
Review: From the first page, Phillip Yancey does a remarkable job of sharing his candid insights into the concept of God's unmerited favor. In a style that is characterized by frank and unabashed honesty, the author examines much of the baggage and myth of faith as regards one of God's most precious gifts. I have given this book to more than twenty people, and have heard the testimonies of about that many more. All concur that Phillip Yancey has done once again a remarkable job of scratching where people are itching. Readers might like to also consider another Yancey triumph, The Jesus I Never Knew.
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Summary: This book helped me to look more through Christ's eyes.
Review: This book is magnificent. It really convicted me of things that I was doing in my everyday life that had none of Christ in them. I dropped a grudge I had held for five years. I have never felt so free! I do have to caution anyone who thinks that they may read this book to be ready for some serious confrontation with their own prejudices. This book totally blows them out of the water. There is no misunderstanding between what is right and what is wrong, but it helps clarify what is more important: my biased view of a person or Christ's view of us all. I predict that Mr. Yancey's book will become a classic.
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