What’s So Amazing About Grace - Week 4
We are entering our last few days here on the Christian Book Club with Philip Yancey’s “What’s So Amazing About Grace”. I hope you have enjoyed the book. I think it should be one of the books that all Christians should read. If the church could really become a dispenser of God’s grace it would have an amazing impact on the world. We will be reading Part this week. I particularly enjoyed Grace and Gravity. The question is raised, “What does a grace-filled Christian look like”?
I look forward to your comments on the remainder of the book. I am going to add a video clip here by Philip Yancey. I thought you might like to see and hear from the author you have been reading this month.
Next week we will begin reading Breakthrough by Derek Morphew. I believe you will find it to be a very enlightening book on the Kingdom of God.
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Comment by Gwen on 2 September 2008:
I’m still enjoying the book so much. Some things he said that I like are:
The gospel of grace begins and ends with forgivness. - That can be so tough at times but I believe it.
“I believe that dispensing God’s grace is the Christians main contribution.” Wow…not many Christians I know do that too much.
Love your enemies. Always love those that hate you, doing battle with Christian weapons and Christian love. Every word we say and every action we take should reflect Gods grace. pg. 244.
In politics….what the nation needs more than antying else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet withine earshot.: wow… cool.
Jesus’s images portray the kingdom as a kind of secret force. Sheep amoung wolves, treasure hidden in a field, the tiniest seed in the garden, wheat growing amount weeds, a pinnch of yeast worked into bread - all these hint at a movement that works within society, changing it from the inside out. - I honestly feel that way some times. Like an alien in a foreign country with a mission from above.
“If the world despises a notorious sinner, the church will love her. If the world cuts off aid to the poor and suffering, the church will offer food and healing. Gods reconciling love. If the world destroys the enemy, the church will love them.” - Does this happen? Do we pray for our enemies in war? Terrorists in the middle East? Do we pray for those having or performing abortions? Do we pray for the political opponents? Do we pray over our homosexual friends or despise them?
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
Politics draws lines between people: in contract Jesus love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. -
The book goes on and on and on. The key to dispensing grace is love. Christians need to love more. Love bigger. Stop being legalist, stop being devisive, finger pointers, and the despensers of ungrace. We need to love more than ever because God does that with us.
I can’t wait to read his book on Prayer. Should be great.