Book Review And Giveaway: Grace by Max Lucado
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Grace by Max Lucado. “More than we deserve, greater than we imagine.”
Grace – that unmerited favor we don’t deserve and can’t earn. Our human nature makes us feel guilty in a way just thinking about it. Max writes about grace in his trademark flowing and easy to read style that satisfies the answers about how “Christ in you” works. Why we need to be rescued and restored. How God overwhelms us with love. How He’s after you. And me too. He answers the question, is that mercy or grace? There is also a very helpful reader’s guide in the back of the book on grace-shaped living. This would be an excellent book to enjoy and study with a small group.
“Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.” Ephesians 1:4-5
An excerpt from the chapter, “Coming Clean With God”:
People are attracted to honesty. Find a congregation that believes in confession. Avoid a fellowship of perfect people (you won’t fit in), but seek one where members confess their sins and show humility, where the price of admission is simply an admission of guilt. Healing happens in a church like this. Followers of Christ have been given authority to hear confession and proclaim grace.
Confessors find freedom that deniers don’t.
“If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.” 1 John 1:8-9
Oh the sweet certainty of these words. “He will cleanse us.”
That sounds about as sweet as orange blossom honey!
Please leave a comment below with your thoughts on grace and I’ll do a random.org drawing this Friday to ID a winner and mail you a copy of this book!
