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Transforming Grace: Discussion Guide
This discussion guide that accompanies Jerry Bridges' Transforming Grace will help stimulate lively group discussions and provide clear, practical applications. In the end, the participant will come away with a deeper understanding and a fuller, ongoing experience of the amazing grace of our Lord.
- GenresTheology
108 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 1991
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Jerry Bridges
120 books706 followersJERRY BRIDGES was an author and conference speaker. His most popular book, The Pursuit of Holiness, has sold over one million copies. Jerry was on the staff of The Navigators for over fifty years, and currently served in the Collegiate Mission where he was involved primarily in staff development, but also served as a speaker resource to the campus ministries.
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August 16, 2021
Just how deep does God’s grace go? Can our lives truly be changed by the grace of God? In Transforming Grace, Jerry Bridges will bring you deeper into the amazing grace of God.
Free and Unmerited Favor
“Grace is God’s free and unmerited favor shown to guilty sinners who deserve only judgment.” Bridges is so bold in this book, and he declares that if we trust to any degree in our own morality or believe God recognizes and merits good works towards salvation, we might not actually be Christians. It is a call to take this book and our spiritual lives seriously.
In chapters 3 and 4, Bridges takes us to Scripture to show just how great God’s grace really is. With Christ as our sacrifice, our sin has been completely removed. It has been hurled into the sea. It has been blotted out from the record. I came away from these chapters in awe that God would want to do good for me.
Called to Be Free
Bridges takes a closer look at our hearts to show how we sometimes have an attitude of deserving. This makes us feel like we can give to God and it is easier to compare what God has given us. Bridges says that being compelled to love as God does shows us how we can have true reverence for God and actually grow in grace.
I was most moved by Chapter 9: Called to Be Free. Bridges says that when we have the love and grace of God, we can be free from what others think and find the strength to truly serve one another. Grace eliminates our self-sufficient pride and allows us to see how God loves the least in this world.
The Power and Extent of God’s Grace
The small group curriculum is excellent in this book, providing central ideas, study questions, group discussion, and suggested prayers. Additional devotional material is provided in the “Pondering Grace” sections for personal reflections. This is some of the best small-group material I have ever seen.
The book ends with different ways we can appropriate God’s grace. In addition to submission to God, we can have gratitude, find contentment, seek humility, and live with forbearance and forgiveness. I saw the power and extent of God’s grace, and I am challenged to cultivate its fruit in my own life -- to be transformed and to be like Christ.
I received a media copy of Transforming Grace and this is my honest review.
Free and Unmerited Favor
“Grace is God’s free and unmerited favor shown to guilty sinners who deserve only judgment.” Bridges is so bold in this book, and he declares that if we trust to any degree in our own morality or believe God recognizes and merits good works towards salvation, we might not actually be Christians. It is a call to take this book and our spiritual lives seriously.
In chapters 3 and 4, Bridges takes us to Scripture to show just how great God’s grace really is. With Christ as our sacrifice, our sin has been completely removed. It has been hurled into the sea. It has been blotted out from the record. I came away from these chapters in awe that God would want to do good for me.
Called to Be Free
Bridges takes a closer look at our hearts to show how we sometimes have an attitude of deserving. This makes us feel like we can give to God and it is easier to compare what God has given us. Bridges says that being compelled to love as God does shows us how we can have true reverence for God and actually grow in grace.
I was most moved by Chapter 9: Called to Be Free. Bridges says that when we have the love and grace of God, we can be free from what others think and find the strength to truly serve one another. Grace eliminates our self-sufficient pride and allows us to see how God loves the least in this world.
The Power and Extent of God’s Grace
The small group curriculum is excellent in this book, providing central ideas, study questions, group discussion, and suggested prayers. Additional devotional material is provided in the “Pondering Grace” sections for personal reflections. This is some of the best small-group material I have ever seen.
The book ends with different ways we can appropriate God’s grace. In addition to submission to God, we can have gratitude, find contentment, seek humility, and live with forbearance and forgiveness. I saw the power and extent of God’s grace, and I am challenged to cultivate its fruit in my own life -- to be transformed and to be like Christ.
I received a media copy of Transforming Grace and this is my honest review.
May 6, 2025
As I go back through my personal library, I systematically read what I find on my shelves that haven't been touched for a while. With Christian study books as this one is, they remain timeless and always hold their value for learning and studying Scripture. This time I actually filled out the questions and gave my answers at least a smidgen of consideration. The Help for Leaders in the back of the book is a good resource as well.
April 15, 2025
Such a fantastic book and incredibly helpful in viewing God’s grace as we should. We did this as a study and it was truly a pleasure to go through this as a group and discuss our own struggles we face.
I highly recommend this book to all Christians.
I highly recommend this book to all Christians.
December 21, 2012
Wow! I really liked this book. It helped me recognize that I oftentimes base my relationship with God according to my own performance, rather than by grace. Sure I believe 100% that salvation is by grace alone through faith. But now that I'm saved, it's easy to believe that I have to maintain a right standing with God by my works, rather than trusting that my right standing with God is established upon Christ's works.
Jerry Bridges by no means advocates antinomianism. He rightfully teaches that Christians have a responsibility to obey our Lord. Yet he also makes it clear that our obedience is the fruit of God's grace in our lives. We are utterly dependent upon the grace of our loving God, not our performance.
Jerry Bridges by no means advocates antinomianism. He rightfully teaches that Christians have a responsibility to obey our Lord. Yet he also makes it clear that our obedience is the fruit of God's grace in our lives. We are utterly dependent upon the grace of our loving God, not our performance.
February 5, 2009
Note: This is a review for the discussion guide accompanying Jerry Bridges’ Transforming Grace, not the book itself (that gets four stars).
I have a simple rule for workbooks: Do they fill parts of the book in better? If so, the workbook gets good reviews and the actual book is usually criticized for not doing what it should. The Transforming Grace discussion guide is more busywork than anything else (though the summaries are quite good). It doesn’t hurt the lessons laid out by the book, but it doesn’t do much to help either. Two stars.
I have a simple rule for workbooks: Do they fill parts of the book in better? If so, the workbook gets good reviews and the actual book is usually criticized for not doing what it should. The Transforming Grace discussion guide is more busywork than anything else (though the summaries are quite good). It doesn’t hurt the lessons laid out by the book, but it doesn’t do much to help either. Two stars.
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