What's So Amazing About Grace?

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Summary: What's So Amazing About Grace
Review: Without a nano second of a hesitancy in writing this review, this book altered my life. I can boast of no other book except scripture, that has impacted my thinking and actions the way this book has. It should be a requirement for every human being on this planet to read this book. I've never recommended a single thing to anyone more passionately than this book.

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Summary: If we could only get everyone to read it
Review: This this one of those books that I can't wait to read again, I'll start though it as soon as I finish rereading 'Reaching for the Invisible God'. Yancey's style and readability make his books kind of like a great ahi steak, while the kids won't eat fish, the rest of us would pass on burgers and pizza and not feel a bit deprived. 'Grace' has a whole lot to say and takes us right to the very heart of God, yet it reads with the same pleasure as a fiction bestseller. After reading this book I want to change my life, I feel called to change my ways, but I don't feel the guilt that often comes with the "you're not doing it right" so often found in work based messages. Thank you Mr Yancey for being a light in a dark world.

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Summary: Gracefull
Review: The book began very good. I enjoyed the thought that Yancey presented on forgiveness, which I believe is highly relevent to the time we are living in now, and what is going on in America. What I did not like however was how after the fifth chapter or so, the book really seemed repetative. He was saying the same things, just with new examples. Overall a good book though.

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Summary: Grace: The Best Last Word
Review: Yeah, so what exactly is so amazing about grace? As I explored this question in Phillip Yancy's book, I encountered many facets of areas that needed grace through his eyes. Mr. Yancy addresses political and social issues to personal and moral issues. Most of these were Biblically backed along with verses, quotes and such. Sprinkled with interesting anecdotes, personal stories and truly amazing tales of grace from real people, I thought the book was very enjoyable. And a great reinforcer of my beliefs as a Christian.

What I realized from reading this book is that "grace" is indeed the best last word and something that we all need and need to dispense. Mr. Yancy's tone was mostly critical to fellow believers and the church- and perhaps something that Christians do need to hear. (Something that I probably needed to hear, as well.) For people who are supposed to be full of grace, we believers don't necessarily show this aspect to the secular world. He addresses many tough and sensitive issues such as abortion and homosexuality... I didn't always agree with his views or his criticisms but overall, I thought he had a good point. We lack grace therefore the world lacks grace. But thank goodness we have a the best teacher, Jesus Christ, to instruct us in the ways of grace. To follow his example.

Bottom line of this book is that we need to be more like Jesus- to love more, to share more of the grace that we received from our Savior. Phillip Yancy pretty much summed it up in this simple sentence, "Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love."

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Summary: What's So Amazing About This Book?
Review: If the concept of grace has ever left you confused, this book will sweep away the fog. Yancey has put together an inspiring work that details and explains what God's grace is and what it means. Just when you think you're finally grasping the grace concept, Yancey throws another illustration at you and the concept becomes clearer and clearer. Grace is truly amazing...and so is this book.

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Summary: Choosing a Life of Grace
Review: It has long been amazing to me that you can hear Christians talk for hours and never hear the word "grace." Yancey's book is an important tonic to our tendancy to ignore grace and gracefulness in our own lives. He reminds us how astonishing it is that God loves us no matter what, and that "there is nothing we can do to make God love us more, and nothing we can do to make God love us less."

The book would be worth reading if all Yancey did was remind us of this fact. Instead, though, he goes on to encourage us to live graciously to look at life as an abject sinner who needs God's forgiveness, and to treat others the same way. Rather than condemning both sin and sinner, he reminds us to love. Grace and love: what could be more important?

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Summary: Amazing Book!
Review: One of the best books I have ever read. And the movie, "Babette's Feast" is a worthwhile rental if you enjoy Yancy's book!

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Summary: The Scandal of Grace
Review: After reading some of the other reviews here, I am sad to say that nothing seems to change when it comes to how some people react to the Grace of the Father. Too many trip over a tree and miss the forest... I love this book. Take my word and read it. You will not be sorry. My favorite part is about the girl from Traverse City; it puts real force behind Jesus's story about the lost son. Besides the Bible (Luke fifteen especially), This book by Yancey, The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning and James Bryan Smith's Embracing the Love of God are the greatest books I have read about Grace.

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Summary: Distortion of Christian Theology
Review: This book is definitely out of sync with modern Christian theology, specifically Hans K!ung. It is poorly written and lacks adequate documentation. Yancey possesses not even the most rudimentary reasoning skills. Only a confirmed believer could agree with everything he says.

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Summary: Questionable Attitude Towards Grace
Review: This book exemplifies the questionable attitude that what ever you do, you can be forgiven if you ask for grace. This means that if Adolf Hitler, in the last nanosecond of his life sought grace he would go to heaven despite all of his horrible crimes against humanity whereas a Jewish person who had no need for Jesus would automatically go to hell despite his myriad good deeds. This attitude seems to be a case of all-or-nothing thinking, an elementary cognitive distortion that seems to be rampant with fundamentalist Christ-ians like Yancey.

Jesus never claimed divinity it was only when Saint Paul and some other followers decided to promote him as such. It was a sophomoric effort to dumb down the religion (Judaism) to attract the most followers. By resorting to hocus-pocus, Christianity became Christ-inanity.