A journey to faith in grace
I start by saying that this is one of the best books I have ever read. If I were a crier, I would have cried in the first chapter.
Brennan Manning has found a way to take the idea of grace from the head and the mouth and somehow shove it down into the heart.
It's simply all about grace and it's motivator- the insane love of God. Throughout the book, I noticed the change that was being wrought in me. O the joy resulting from putting faith in grace! (Think for a minute on that one.) Freedom- o how beautiful. Freedom from the wages of sin, freedom from fear of the punishment or even the "grumpiness" of God.How often do we speak of grace but how little do we live by it? This is the idea that Paul was crazy about. It's what saved Peter and the rest of the New Testament all stars.
Honestly, this freed me from a burden I didn't even know I was carrying. My worry is that being surrounded by an American church that doesn't always live their convictions about grace I'll fall into the same old legalism... but that's why I have a copy and I will put this in my short list of "rereaders". It has helped me see the things I've been talking about for years in a drastically new and real light.
Just read this grace-infected, love-filled, and gospel-saturated book. You will not be the same afterwards.
