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Summary: Thought Provoking Truths about Balance
Review: In a time of corporate, political and religious scandal this book is an outstanding book about the balance of truth and grace. More importantly it helps provide you confidence to be true to God's purpose and work in you. Read it, think it through and make a difference. The truth is not always popular, and grace is not always the right thing to provide. Read this book, observe life for examples of grace and truth misplaced, tolerance for lies from our leadership, and who is really the victim of unforgiveness. It will shape your perspective and your heart.
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Summary: Grace and truth in balance
Review: Randy Alcorn gives a fresh perspective on presenting the Gospel with grace and truth. He makes some very good points about the need for both in our lives. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Grace and truth in balance
Review: Randy Alcorn gives a fresh perspective on presenting the Gospel with grace and truth. He makes some very good points about the need for both in our lives. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Powerful but Brief!!!
Review: Randy Alcorn has written a small treatise on grace and truth, and while using Scripture and personal examples, he appeals to Christians to pursue balance between the both. In one chapter after another, he focuses first on grace and then truth, and contends that the balanced Christian life must have both, and with a truth-centered Christianity, one runs the risk of being legalistic, but in a grace-centered Christianity, one also runs the risk of being overly nice, with the truth taking a back seat.
It is a nicely woven theme, and can be read in one sitting, although the reader might want to chew on one chapter at a time. A powerful treatise, though, and it's right to the point!!
Highly recommended!!!
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Summary: Super Book
Review: Randy Alcorn really gives you a great understanding of what it's like to be a "balanced" Christian. Not just full of Grace at the expense of Truth or vice versa but that it takes dependence on the Holy Spirit to provide discernment at that moment of decision to dispense truth and/or grace as required.
Mr. Alcorn really cut to the heart of the matter in letting us know that being a Christian means dispensing Truth and Grace in the relativistic society that we live in.
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Summary: Super Book
Review: Randy Alcorn really gives you a great understanding of what it's like to be a "balanced" Christian. Not just full of Grace at the expense of Truth or vice versa but that it takes dependence on the Holy Spirit to provide discernment at that moment of decision to dispense truth and/or grace as required.
Mr. Alcorn really cut to the heart of the matter in letting us know that being a Christian means dispensing Truth and Grace in the relativistic society that we live in.
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Summary: Super Book
Review: Randy Alcorn really gives you a great understanding of what it's like to be a "balanced" Christian. Not just full of Grace at the expense of Truth or vice versa but that it takes dependence on the Holy Spirit to provide discernment at that moment of decision to dispense truth and/or grace as required.
Mr. Alcorn really cut to the heart of the matter in letting us know that being a Christian means dispensing Truth and Grace in the relativistic society that we live in.
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Summary: A well balanced book that should be read by every Christian
Review: This book does a good job of discussing the balance between Grace and Truth. As another reviewer pointed out, Truth can appear to be "Law" in this book, or maybe Grace is Truth. The fact is that Jesus repeatedly pleaded with His apostles to keep His commandments (Matt 28:20, MK 12:30, John 15:12) and He also said: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (John 13:34) "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet,"and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself. "Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Rom 13:8) Jesus said "If you love Me you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15). (A good summary of love is 1 Cor 13:1-13)
This cannot be overlooked. Grace is never an excuse to sin. That is why this book really useful. It helps show the line between grace and truth. Jesus didn't come to Jerusalem and preach only grace. If it were that simple, He wouldn't have condemned the scribes and Pharisees. They had no love in them. We are still commanded to love: You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. (Gal 5:13) This book gives various circumstances were people (some christians and some non-christians) have needed to be reached in gentleness and love. Sometimes this is explaining the Truth about the law, so that grace can be preached: What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. (Romans 7:7) Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law. (Romans 3) The law does not save us. We are saved by the Grace of God and not by works, but this fact does not negate Christian responsibility. Again, this is a fine line that has been well thought out and covered in various ways by the author Randy Alcorn. I think this book should be a must read for every Christian. I only wish it were a bit longer. But I do like it as it is, (since you can read it in an afternoon if you want) it makes a great gift to pass around to fellow Christians and non-Christians alike.
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Summary: A well balanced book that should be read by every Christian
Review: This book does a good job of discussing the balance between Grace and Truth. As another reviewer pointed out, Truth can appear to be "Law" in this book, or maybe Grace is Truth. The fact is that Jesus repeatedly pleaded with His apostles to keep His commandments (Matt 28:20, MK 12:30, John 15:12) and He also said: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (John 13:34) "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet,"and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself. "Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Rom 13:8) Jesus said "If you love Me you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15). (A good summary of love is 1 Cor 13:1-13)
This cannot be overlooked. Grace is never an excuse to sin. That is why this book really useful. It helps show the line between grace and truth. Jesus didn't come to Jerusalem and preach only grace. If it were that simple, He wouldn't have condemned the scribes and Pharisees. They had no love in them. We are still commanded to love: You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. (Gal 5:13) This book gives various circumstances were people (some christians and some non-christians) have needed to be reached in gentleness and love. Sometimes this is explaining the Truth about the law, so that grace can be preached: What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. (Romans 7:7) Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law. (Romans 3) The law does not save us. We are saved by the Grace of God and not by works, but this fact does not negate Christian responsibility. Again, this is a fine line that has been well thought out and covered in various ways by the author Randy Alcorn. I think this book should be a must read for every Christian. I only wish it were a bit longer. But I do like it as it is, (since you can read it in an afternoon if you want) it makes a great gift to pass around to fellow Christians and non-Christians alike.
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Summary: Misunderstood paradox
Review: This book presents quite well the importance of a balance between grace and truth and some of the later chapters are quite good. Unfortunately, the Grace and Law apparent paradox is erroneously translated as Grace and Truth in this book. Grace has 100% of truth in it, and it is a wonderful truth. As Jesus pointed out, someone could be abiding by the whole Law, and still miss the truth completely. The first two chapters become correct if the word Truth is replaced with the word Law. In this case, however, someone could be misled to think that the Law needs to be balanced with Grace, which isn't correct either. The Law is not our standard for salvation, and shouldn't be confused as our standard of living either. Jesus clearly set a much higher standard of living for us to follow, and this should be our goal. Going back to the Law would make us legalistic and try to change our life from the outside in instead of inside out. I wish the author had been able to talk about the need for Grace and Truth without implying a paradox or confusing it with the Law.
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