What's So Amazing About Grace?

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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. For a 'cure' the AA program demands of its members radical dependence on a Higher Power and on fellow strugglers.... They openly ask God for forgiveness and strength, and ask their friends around them for support. They come to AA because they believe that there, grace flows 'on tap'. 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.

Think of it this way. The Sears Tower in Chicago is much taller than the LaSalle National Bank. FrNow, how that relates to us is : if we play fast and loose in our social lives, our nemesis may carefully cultivate a battalion of armed warriors, by sowing the seeds of ill rumour, so we could reap the whirlwind. Virtue is the best road.

In other words, without God’s grace and mercy we have no hope of obtaining a relationship with God. In terms of our own works or effort or when left to our own abilities, we are like the dead in some horror movie who walk about in the night. a b "Monastery Hosts Bold and Moving New Production". Western Morning News. Devon. August 20, 2010. p.18 . Retrieved June 22, 2015. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Quincy Adams Nelson, Stan (May 2, 2009). "Amazing Grace, How Strange the Sound". The Pueblo Chieftain. Pueblo, Colorado . Retrieved June 22, 2015.

a b c d e Briggs, David (August 30, 1997). "Forgiveness is Trying but oh so Vital". Calgary Herald. p.J8 . Retrieved August 14, 2015. Questions: We Asked Musician Mal Pope Our 20 Questions". Llanelli Star. May 9, 2012. p.20 . Retrieved June 22, 2015. I've been a Christian for some forty years and have found much 'religious' writing unbearable, particularly that written over the past century (with certain notable exceptions). In an age glutted with so-called 'Christian' politics, posturing, and propaganda, Yancey looks around with compassionate eyes and quietly, gently, just tells stories -- one after another after another. He draws on his life and travels, on his reading, on his not-always-kind reader responses, on his many conversations with both the famous and the decidedly not, and on history recent or remote. What we SEE through his eyes is the healing grace through which God takes the world into His arms -- not the self-righteous and arrogant, but those weighed down with pain and struggle, shame and regret, weariness and disappointment -- a world of deep longing and near despair.