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# What's So Amazing About Grace?

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OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Discover grace as you've never known it before: the most powerful force in the universe and our only hope for love and forgiveness. 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. If grace is God's love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Yancey sets grace in the midst of life's stark images, tests its mettle against horrific "ungrace": Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust? Can it triumph over the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan? Should any grace at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized seventeen young men? Grace does not excuse sin, says Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. It forgives the unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. It loves today's AIDS-ridden addict as much as the tax collector of Jesus's day. 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 asks, How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?

Review: Amazing Book About Grace - This book came highly recommended by my wife and from a member of Peace Church. Yancey says that he would rather convey grace than explain it, which is why he writes with stories rather than syllogisms (Yancey 1997, 16). There are certainly a lot of stories in this book. Part one is about the sweetness of grace. Yancey tells the story of Babette, a woman who served as a housekeeper for twelve years for two sisters, Martina and Philippa. The sisters had lived difficult, graceless lives. Babette wins the lottery, and the sisters fear she will leave. But Babette spends all the money on a lavish French feast for Philippa and Martina and their guests in honor of the anniversary of their father's birth. Grace came to them in the form of a feast and in the form of a loyal friend (Yancey 1997, 19-26). Yancey tells the story of Peter Greaves, who was angry at God and life because he contracted leprosy while stationed in India. But he testifies that he experienced grace through music while at Bible college. He played piano for hours on end. He also experienced grace through the beauty of nature, as he walked through pine forests, watching dragonflies and flocks of birds. He then experienced grace by falling in love and these experiences gradually led him back to his childhood faith in Christ (Yancey 1997, 40-42). Yancey also tells a modern day version of the prodigal son story, where a teenage girl runs away from her home in Traverse City, Michigan. She heads down to Detroit, gets into drugs and prostitution to make ends meet. But she misses her family. One day, she writes her parents and tells them that she will be taking the bus home. She arrives at the Traverse City bus station at midnight. She is shocked to discover her family and about forty other relatives waiting for her, wearing party hats and saying "Welcome home!" She hugs her dad and tries to apologize, but he says "There's no time for apologies. We need to get home and celebrate. There's a big banquet waiting for you" (Yancey 1997, 49-51). That's grace. Part two deals with breaking the cycle of "ungrace." Yancey tells stories of people who lived bitter, miserable lives because they harbored anger and could not forgive (Yancey 1997, 75-81). Yancey says that we should forgive because forgiveness offers a way for us to start broken relationships over and to heal the hurts of the past (Yancey 1997, '98-99). He tells the story of Jean Valjean, the French prisoner from Les Miserables, whose life was transformed by grace (Yancey 1997, 101-2). There is also the story of Rebecca, whose clergy husband cheated on him with a woman named Julianne. She was bitter, but she phoned them one day and "I choose to forgive you." Years later, Julianne phoned Rebecca to say that the man had been doing the same thing to her and she needed someone to tell. The women got together, and Rebecca led Julianne to Christ, and they became friends (Yancey 1997, 104-6). That is grace. The rest of the book is in the same vein, pictures of grace, mixed with the occasional picture of ungrace. The researcher has already used the Les Miserables story in a recent sermon, but this book is a veritable treasure trove of grace stories that can be mined for future sermons. But taken as a whole, What's So Amazing About Grace? was one of the most enjoyable and heartwarming books on the reading plan.
Review: An Absolute Must Read - This book was one of several options that I had to chose from for a class assignment. I chose it not because I particularly wanted to read it, but rather because it looked less boring than the other choices. I am so thankful that I picked What's So Amazing About Grace? to read for my class. It was absolutely inspirational. Yancy does a fantastic job of establishing his stand on the subject of grace and then backing up his claims with significant evidence. I personally am a Christian and I believe that having grace in one's life can be life-changing. Yancy, however, points out that grace, while it is the only “good” word left, is lacking in some areas of the world where we as Christians would expect it to be. The church should be the home of grace, yet it has become to many a place of judgment. One particular section of this book stuck with me. Yancy said that church should be a place we go to get cleaned up, not a place where we have to clean up before going to. Grace is so important and this book really stresses that, but it also shows how as Christians we have become recognized as ungraceful. Yancy does such an amazing job of telling his thoughts on grace without making this a difficult read. He uses stories to illustrate a point and then analyzes key sections from that story afterwards. The analysis is where the reflection happens. This reflection is what makes the book so inspirational. Yancy's analysis make the reader think about their own lives and how they could improve with the addition of grace into their daily lives. The only thing he could have done better was to strengthen his transitions between stories, yet that is so minor when compared to everything that is done so well in this book. Overall, this book is well worth reading. It is interesting and will make one think about how they could be more grace-filled in their every day life. I recommend this to everyone, but specifically Christians. It is humbling because Yancy places a lot of the blame for why Christians are viewed as ungraceful in today's society on those who call themselves 'Christians'. He says that in order to change how Christianity is viewed, we must change how Christians are viewed by the world. It is absolutely a must read.

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #171,618 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,266 in Christian Personal Growth #2,306 in Christian Inspirational #5,080 in Christian Spiritual Growth (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,143 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Book About Grace
*by D***D on February 25, 2012*

This book came highly recommended by my wife and from a member of Peace Church. Yancey says that he would rather convey grace than explain it, which is why he writes with stories rather than syllogisms (Yancey 1997, 16). There are certainly a lot of stories in this book. Part one is about the sweetness of grace. Yancey tells the story of Babette, a woman who served as a housekeeper for twelve years for two sisters, Martina and Philippa. The sisters had lived difficult, graceless lives. Babette wins the lottery, and the sisters fear she will leave. But Babette spends all the money on a lavish French feast for Philippa and Martina and their guests in honor of the anniversary of their father's birth. Grace came to them in the form of a feast and in the form of a loyal friend (Yancey 1997, 19-26). Yancey tells the story of Peter Greaves, who was angry at God and life because he contracted leprosy while stationed in India. But he testifies that he experienced grace through music while at Bible college. He played piano for hours on end. He also experienced grace through the beauty of nature, as he walked through pine forests, watching dragonflies and flocks of birds. He then experienced grace by falling in love and these experiences gradually led him back to his childhood faith in Christ (Yancey 1997, 40-42). Yancey also tells a modern day version of the prodigal son story, where a teenage girl runs away from her home in Traverse City, Michigan. She heads down to Detroit, gets into drugs and prostitution to make ends meet. But she misses her family. One day, she writes her parents and tells them that she will be taking the bus home. She arrives at the Traverse City bus station at midnight. She is shocked to discover her family and about forty other relatives waiting for her, wearing party hats and saying "Welcome home!" She hugs her dad and tries to apologize, but he says "There's no time for apologies. We need to get home and celebrate. There's a big banquet waiting for you" (Yancey 1997, 49-51). That's grace. Part two deals with breaking the cycle of "ungrace." Yancey tells stories of people who lived bitter, miserable lives because they harbored anger and could not forgive (Yancey 1997, 75-81). Yancey says that we should forgive because forgiveness offers a way for us to start broken relationships over and to heal the hurts of the past (Yancey 1997, '98-99). He tells the story of Jean Valjean, the French prisoner from Les Miserables, whose life was transformed by grace (Yancey 1997, 101-2). There is also the story of Rebecca, whose clergy husband cheated on him with a woman named Julianne. She was bitter, but she phoned them one day and "I choose to forgive you." Years later, Julianne phoned Rebecca to say that the man had been doing the same thing to her and she needed someone to tell. The women got together, and Rebecca led Julianne to Christ, and they became friends (Yancey 1997, 104-6). That is grace. The rest of the book is in the same vein, pictures of grace, mixed with the occasional picture of ungrace. The researcher has already used the Les Miserables story in a recent sermon, but this book is a veritable treasure trove of grace stories that can be mined for future sermons. But taken as a whole, What's So Amazing About Grace? was one of the most enjoyable and heartwarming books on the reading plan.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Absolute Must Read
*by A***N on December 3, 2013*

This book was one of several options that I had to chose from for a class assignment. I chose it not because I particularly wanted to read it, but rather because it looked less boring than the other choices. I am so thankful that I picked What's So Amazing About Grace? to read for my class. It was absolutely inspirational. Yancy does a fantastic job of establishing his stand on the subject of grace and then backing up his claims with significant evidence. I personally am a Christian and I believe that having grace in one's life can be life-changing. Yancy, however, points out that grace, while it is the only “good” word left, is lacking in some areas of the world where we as Christians would expect it to be. The church should be the home of grace, yet it has become to many a place of judgment. One particular section of this book stuck with me. Yancy said that church should be a place we go to get cleaned up, not a place where we have to clean up before going to. Grace is so important and this book really stresses that, but it also shows how as Christians we have become recognized as ungraceful. Yancy does such an amazing job of telling his thoughts on grace without making this a difficult read. He uses stories to illustrate a point and then analyzes key sections from that story afterwards. The analysis is where the reflection happens. This reflection is what makes the book so inspirational. Yancy's analysis make the reader think about their own lives and how they could improve with the addition of grace into their daily lives. The only thing he could have done better was to strengthen his transitions between stories, yet that is so minor when compared to everything that is done so well in this book. Overall, this book is well worth reading. It is interesting and will make one think about how they could be more grace-filled in their every day life. I recommend this to everyone, but specifically Christians. It is humbling because Yancy places a lot of the blame for why Christians are viewed as ungraceful in today's society on those who call themselves 'Christians'. He says that in order to change how Christianity is viewed, we must change how Christians are viewed by the world. It is absolutely a must read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Everything!
*by A***Y on February 6, 2016*

Grace is something that is incredibly simple in theory, deeply personal and very difficult to implement in our everyday lives. Grace is the defining element of Christianity and it is beautiful. Yet, the idea that we are loved and there is nothing that we can do that will change that love is met with skepticism at best and usually suspicion. Yancey makes it clear how very beautiful and simple Grace is. But he also covers "Grace Abuse" and forgiveness. All of this was thought provoking and inspired many conversations in our house. Throughout the book Yancey makes clear how very powerful Grace can be... it's just not easy. In a world marred by ungrace I was drawn to this book to see where we had gone wrong in Western society. Yancey's book really helps with working through that thought process. Yancey discusses "legalism" as an enemy of grace and he focuses particularly on the involvement of the church in politics. In the end I came away with the message that it is up to each of us as individuals to live a life of grace and carry that message out into the world. If the world you see reflected back is not one with grace, it is up to us to act differently to change that. I could write more about the intertwining of grace and politics but in the end such discussions seem pointless when grace is just absent. Perhaps we should all just start with the end in mind, and that may be as simple as a recognition of the fact that Grace can change the world.

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