171: What’s So Amazing About Grace? with Philip Yancey

What is so amazing about grace?

That’s the question author Philip Yancey started with when he wrote the book by that title, What’s So Amazing About Grace, published in 1997.

It went on to sell over 2 million copies.

And now, 25 years later, Philip Yancey has released a revised version—updated for the modern day.

As the author of 13 Gold Medallion Award-winning books and two ECPA Book of the Year awards, including for What's So Amazing About Grace, Philip will tell you some things never change.

As he writes, “Grace is the church's great distinctive. It's the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else—for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world.”

What does it look like in action?

Grace does not excuse sin, he says, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. 

How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear?

And how can we become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What's So Amazing About Grace? And could use a whole lot more of it.

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