I just wanted to share a book that has really made me think lately! In fact I am almost done with it and plan to re-read it immediately. My prayer for the New Year is "God help me to be a messenger of your love and grace to a lost and dying world." It is the goodness and grace of God that brings the lost to Him. It wasn't the fear of His judgement that brought me to Christ but His grace and mercy and goodness.
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. What is grace? If grace is God's love for the undeserving, then what does it look like in action? If Christians are its sole dispensers, how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? 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 challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know What's So Amazing About Grace?
Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award, the Christian Book of the Year Award, and the Retailers Choice Award
Dec. 11, 2007 - Untitled Comment
I may have to read this one too..
Merry Christmas!!