Josh's review
What's So Amazing About Grace?
by Philip Yancey
Josh's review
What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
Josh's review
rating:
I got the "visual" edition of this book from Stephie right after I became a Christian in South Africa. (Later I read the full edition)
So I got to dwell by myself in Africa with a Bible, this book, and an RC Sproul book.
The visual pages of What's So Amazing About Grace unfolded as amazing news! Is this really true? God has pardoned dirty criminals through the death of his Son? It's free? No pre-requisites? It's just... by grace? My death sentence for hating God has been paid for by another... while I was still hating him?
What the book does well is captures the aroma of Grace through stories of grace mixed in with bible teaching.
While Philip Yancey isn't a Calvinist, this book strongly affected my theology towards Calvinism on the issue of undeserved grace*.
*undeserved grace is redundant, all grace is by definition undeserved
So I got to dwell by myself in Africa with a Bible, this book, and an RC Sproul book.
The visual pages of What's So Amazing About Grace unfolded as amazing news! Is this really true? God has pardoned dirty criminals through the death of his Son? It's free? No pre-requisites? It's just... by grace? My death sentence for hating God has been paid for by another... while I was still hating him?
What the book does well is captures the aroma of Grace through stories of grace mixed in with bible teaching.
While Philip Yancey isn't a Calvinist, this book strongly affected my theology towards Calvinism on the issue of undeserved grace*.
*undeserved grace is redundant, all grace is by definition undeserved
