Grace is the one great distinctive Christians have to offer world -- for only Christianity dares to make love Yet how many Christians can describe what grace means? What do mean when we talk about grace -- that amazing gift of God that the "engine that powers Christian love and pushes evil away with forgiveness"?Philip Yancey explores the meaning of the word "grace" with personal examples, historical and literary stories, poignant anecdotes, and in-depth biblical insight. He talks about what grace is -- and isn't. He shows how Jesus illustrated grace in his earthly ministry and how we can identify with God's heart of grace when we practice forgiveness and reach out to each other in love.
Yancey, with the same inquiring spirit and reasonable style that made The Jesus I Never Knew a best-seller, take a respected but dormant Christian teaching and turns it on its head for readers want more than a religious status quo. He offers a disturbing hope-filled look at the "scandal" of grace and how life-transforming power can be unleashed in a dog-eat-dog, every-man-for-himself world.
Yancey confronts head-on such issues as the temptations of legalism, the accusation of "cheap grace", and the role of a Christian in society. He says, "The down-and-out who flocked Jesus when he lived on earth no longer feel welcome among the followers. What has happened to grace, the heart of the Gospel?" meaning of the word "grace" with personal examples, Where, Yancey asks, can grace be found in a church that often more like the moral police than a forgiving, caring community?
Philip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing.
Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Yancey earned his MA with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
Yancey moved to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1971 joined the staff of Campus Life magazine--a sister publication of Christianity Today directed towards high school and college students--where he served as editor for eight years. Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today and wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He is a member of the editorial board of Books and Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.
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