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Summary: A new Vision!
Review: As a person who really did not know or understand Grace (one of the reasons I chose to read this book)if it smacked me in the head, which now I know it has many times, I am very grateful that I experienced reading this book twice.Mr. Yancey's stories helped me identify and understand the power of Grace to resolve problems that are developed by ungrace. Because I better understand and can identify Grace and Forgiveness, I am choosing to alter my personal vison to live a life full of Grace.
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Summary: God's Grace is truly amazing!
Review: I have faithfully been part of a church and studying the bible for the last 20 years. I have a relationship with the Holy Spirit and have visited many churches, denominations, and religions. Though many churches have preached the gospel and spoke of God's grace, none have compared or grasped the understanding that Philip Yancey has seemed to capture in the book titled, "What's So Amazing About Grace?" It will not only make you truly understand God's Grace, but it will help to heal you from much pain and guilt, you yourself, other poeple, or even churches have placed on you. Too many churches preach the hard law and forget the whole point of the gospel...God's amazing, underserved grace! Oh, how refreshing and enlightening! Moses brought the law, Jesus brought truth and grace.
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Summary: Grace-ful
Review: Learn, feel, probe and appreciate the one word that describes our lives as Christians--- GRACE. This book does not even attempt to define it but you will get the point. There is a drawback, though... you will realize areas in your life- thoughts, words, actions- that is in the state of un-GRACE, and you may need to change.
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Summary: What's So Amazing About This Book
Review: Book of the Year winner, this is the best book, outside of the Bible, that I have ever read. Period. Here Yancey presents a radical picture of what Grace, the last good word, really is. As usual, his writing style is very down to earth, real, empathetic, and insightful. How do we deal with the idea of Grace combined with things like Nazi Germany, the KKK, and Columbine high school? Can we reconcile the two in our minds? We must, if we are to view Grace as it is truely presented in the Bible. Grace is scandelous. But scandelous Grace is what God demands of His church. Real Grace forgives the unforgiveable, loves the unloveable, and reaches even to the undesirable. And when true Grace is emparted, the world sees Christ, for Christ's Grace given to us is just as amazing. Yancey's words here are sometimes shocking, as it is difficult for the rational human mind to empart Grace when we automatically demand justice. But none the less, his words are Biblically true and so the challenge is for the church to apply these lessons. Read this book. Open your heart. Accept the Grace that God emparts to you and then empart Grace to those in your life. Learning to empart Grace, and in the process destroying the cycle of un-grace, will utterly change your world. There is no other book that I can recommend more to a Christian searching to be and love like Jesus. Five stars.
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Summary: Still thinking about this book months later.
Review: Before I read this book I knew so little about grace, and how we drain grace from our Christianity. Philip Yancey's description of Jesus' life on earth is so different from how we Christians believe we're supposed to behave, and yet we don't see it till someone like him shows us gently how ungracious our behaviour has been. I pray that I never forget to look for that which drains grace from my life.
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Summary: Amazed at Yancey
Review: Yancey hits the target concerning Christ and his grace. I heard about this book from a friend and Wow was he right. This book is excellant for new or old christians. I recommended to one of my friends and he was amazed also. Mr. Yancey has great insight.
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Summary: A most encouraging and challenging book on Christianity
Review: Philip Yancey is one of my favorite authors, and this book is definitely one of his best. We live in a sick world that is desperately searching for hope and meaning. God's grace is the answer to all of life's problems, and those who follow Christ have the answer to all the questions; yet grace like God's is so unfathomable from our earthly perspective. Yancey does an admirable job in putting "flesh" on the concept of biblical grace - - showing us what it is, by giving us examples of grace and "ungrace," as Yancey calls it, in the lives of real people. Not a boring theological treatise, but an immensely encouraging book that offers a glimpse of the depth and expansiveness of God's amazing grace. Chapter Two, in which Yancey summarizes the plot of the movie "Babette's Feast" as a beautiful parable of what grace looks like is worth the price of the book alone! But Yancey is also honest enough to admit that the church mostly does a very poor job of extending God's grace to others -- a much needed wake-up call for Christians. All this to say - - read this book!
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Summary: A life-changing book
Review: Simply put, this one book changed my life by giving me hope and a closer, much deeper relationship with the loving God of my understanding
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Summary: What's so Amazing About Grace
Review: This book had both good and not so good points. It had several excellent illustrations. The way it pictured grace was eye opening. If anyone is looking for a book that doesn't get into the deep theological elements of grace, this is a good book. He also gave several personal examples of how he experiened grace. However, some things weren't so positive. Most of his personal examples made a small point but carried on for a long time. It seems that he was patting his own back. One thing that might be troubling is that there are no footnotes. However, at the end of the book there is a list of sources cited according to each chapter. I found this unhelpful. Also, I don't think he defined grace as accuratly as he should have. Grace has to deal with God's wrath that He has against all of us. It had to be satisfied. That is why Jesus had to die. God's wrath that should have been for us was poured out on Jesus. I don't think he made this point very well. All in all, it is a decent book that has helped me deepen my knowledge about grace but with some very ruff spots.
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Summary: Yancey is a hallmark
Review: I must confess that I often find Christian books either condescending or simplistic. Even if the root message is positive, a poorly written narrative means I don't read past the first chapter. Discovering Yancey, upon recommendation of a friend, was refreshing. I had neither the urge to edit each line (as I'm wont to do) nor did my hands rove for the remote. Instead, his clear message, which is simple without being simplistic, that God's love is present for us whether or not we accept it reminds us that we often arrogantly attempt to put human standards on God rather than allowing God's standards of who is 'worthy' to be revealed through us.
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