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In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old
daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And
forgave. He said of the bombers, "I have lost my daughter, but I bear no
grudge. . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will
forgive them."His words caught the media’s ear--and out of one man’s
grief, the world got a glimpse of grace.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’ 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?