The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

by Lee Strobel

The Case for a CreatorThe Case for a Creator explored the scientific evidence for God;

The Case for ChristThe Case for Christ investigated the historical evidence for Jesus;

The Case for FaithThe Case for Faith responded to eight major objections about Christianity;

The Case for The Real JesusThe Case for The Real Jesus refuted the current challenges to the Bible and Christ …

Now, in The Case for GraceThe Case for Grace, Lee Strobel crafts a compelling and highly personal experientialexperiential case for God, focusing on God’s transforming work in the lives of men and women today.

Writing with unusual candor, Lee draws upon his own journey from atheism to Christianity to explore the depth and breadth of God’s redeeming love for spiritually wayward people. He travels thousands of miles to capture the inspiring stories of everyday people whose values have been radically changed and who have discovered the “how” and “why” behind God’s amazing grace. You’ll encounter racists, addicts, and even murderers who have found new hope and purpose. You’ll meet once-bitter people who have received God’s power to forgive those who have harmed them—and, equally amazing, people mired in guilt who have discovered that they can even forgive themselves.

Through it all, you will be encouraged as you see how God’s grace can revolutionize your eternity and relationships… starting today.

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Hardcover, 240 pages

Published February 24th 2015 by Zondervan (first published April 9th 2013)

tags: theology, spirituality, faith, christianity, christian non fiction, religion, nonfiction, christian living, history, christian

Book Quotes

“All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.”

― Lee Strobel

“These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.”

― Lee Strobel

“It’s hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you’ve failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.”

― Lee Strobel

“But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time — in our own lives. In other words, when we’re judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.”

― Lee Strobel

“One night I got a call from the church’s senior pastor, Bill Hybels. “I heard a nasty rumor about you,” he said. I was taken aback. “Like what?” “That you’re working at the church sixty or seventy hours a week. That you’re there late into the night and all day Sunday.” To be honest, I swelled with pride. That’s right, I wanted to say. I’m the hardest working member of the staff. Finally, it’s time for some recognition and thanks — if not directly from God, then from my pastor.”

― Lee Strobel

“Yes, in Christianity, the gap that our sin creates between us and God is simply insurmountable. Trying to cross it is like jumping off the Newport Beach pier and trying to leap to Hawaii,” he said, gesturing in the general direction of the Pacific Ocean.”

― Lee Strobel

“The insights that freed Jud were similar to the ones that led to my own recovery from spiritual workaholism after being confronted by my boss years ago. I came to realize that God didn’t love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God. I could stop working like a slave to justify myself; I just needed to recognize — and celebrate — my adoption as God’s child.”

― Lee Strobel

“says he ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn’t delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy.”

― Lee Strobel

“Are you sure?” I asked. “I thought there was a story in Buddhist literature that parallels the Prodigal Son parable.” “Well, they’re similar to the degree that they both involve sons who rebelled and left home, then later saw the error of their ways and came back. But the Buddhist story ends quite differently — the son has to work off his misdeeds.” “How?” “He ends up toiling for twenty-five years, hauling dung. So that provides a stark contrast between the God of grace and a religion where people have to work their way to nirvana.”

― Lee Strobel

“Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.”

― Lee Strobel

“That is the joyful task of every follower of Jesus. Someday may it be written about me on my tombstone: He was so amazed by God's grace that he couldn't keep it to himself.”

― Lee Strobel

“Over the next 1,364 days, the Khmer Rouge, seeking to obliterate the social classes and create an agrarian society of peasants, was responsible for killing, starving, or working to death about two million Cambodians, out of a population of eight million. Accounting for the percentage of people destroyed, Pol Pot’s Communist regime was the most murderous in the modern age.”

― Lee Strobel

“We can never sink so far that God’s grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.”

― Lee Strobel

“Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey1”

― Lee Strobel

“Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: “You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you’re right with God. There’s no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: ‘I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”

― Lee Strobel

“Afterward, an evangelical student seemed bothered. He said, ‘I’m having trouble seeing the difference between what they do and what we do. It felt the same.’ “As I explained to this student, it’s true that people in other religious movements can have wonderful experiences that make them feel spiritually uplifted. In fact, good feelings can be generated in so many different ways that we ought not let our feelings dictate which religious direction we’re going to go.”

― Lee Strobel

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING”

― Lee Strobel

“Islam is essentially a system of trying to please God, and yet nobody can have confidence that they’ve done enough to warrant paradise,”

― Lee Strobel

“Jesus’s death has infinite value because he’s an infinite God; it was enough to cover all the sins of the world. If we say some sin is too terrible, then we’re saying Jesus fell short in his mission. Grace is only grace if it’s available even to the Duchs of the world. In fact,” he said, straightening himself in his chair, “here’s a difficult thing for us to comprehend: God loves Duch as much as he loves you and me.”

― Lee Strobel

“When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn’t footnote any exceptions. God’s grace is inexhaustible.”

― Lee Strobel

Lee Strobel

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of nearly twenty books and has been interviewed on numerous national television programs, including ABC's 20/20, Fox News, and CNN.

After a nearly two-year investigation of the evidence for Jesus, Lee received Christ as his forgiver and leader in 1981. He joined the staff of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL, in 1987, and later became a teaching pastor there. He joined Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, CA, as a teaching pastor in 2000. He left Saddleback's staff in mid-2002 to focus on writing. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for Outreach magazine.

Lee shared the prestigious Charles "Kip" Jordon Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he co-authored about the movie The Passion of the Christ. He also has won awards for his books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary.
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