What’s so Amazing About Grace Book Report

Cameron Peterson Mr. Oswald Romans Period 4 11 January 2012 Whats So awesome ab reveal Grace? Book field of study Whats So Amazing about Grace? is a day oblige written by Philip Yancey. It begins with a twisted story of a upon living on the streets. She is unable to feed her two-year old fry and has to find another way to earn money. She could not think of each other alternatives and began selling her child out for prostitution. She could make much more(prenominal) money this way than she could in one night.The woman began counseling and when asked if she had invariably considered going to church, her response was that attending church would only make her emotional state worse about herself. Yancey describes Earth as a place good of un ornament. This is a term that Yancey uses to describe the absence of ornament. He goes on to chat about grace, calling it one of the last unspoiled words now and highlighting the neglect of it among the church. Yancey says that the unive rse of discourse is filled with ungrace and that we live in an automatic teller full of it. We argon in danger of it becoming normal to us, and creation desensitized to the lack of grace in the world.Yancey uses a few examples to show us what grace should be like in the world we live in. He gives an example using the movie Babettes Feast. He shows that grace is something accustomed with no strings attached or charge. In the movie, grace is give to those who definitely do not deserve it. In fact, these people scarcely know how to receive grace in the first place. Yancey also uses savior parables as examples for grace. One example he uses is the parable of the lost sheep. He explains that the shepherd shows grace to the one sheep that was lost among the other ninety-nine sheep.He points out that grace is not mathematical, and that it is not logical. Yancey tells us that this is what grace is truly about. intuitive giving with no strings attached. Yancey also talks about how gra ce is for everybody. He uses saviour as an example many times. Never did the Nazarene tell someone that they could not be forgiven if they only came to Him. This all-extending property of grace is pregnant to remember. Because Jesus extended grace to all, we should do the same. There are none who are not deserving or worthy of our grace. This is important for us to remember.It is true that grace does not come easy, and that it is not unavoidably easy to give. Grace is not a small display of charity it is a sacrifice and a gift to others. Just as Jesus gave us the gift of grace by suffering and dying on the cross for us, we should be able to give gifts of grace at our birth expense to others. I very much enjoyed this book and was spiritually go by it. I agree with most of what Philip Yancey has to say about lack of grace not only in the church, but in the world also. In todays day and age, it seems that everyone is in it for themselves.Most do not take the time of day to stop and give their grace to the needy. It helped to fort my view that all of deserving of grace and that we, as Christians, should be training to give our grace to others. While I do support that paper that we need to cure the world of ungrace, I do not notion that we need to do this in order to earn paragons grace. This is a view that Yancey supports in the book and I do not happen to agree with it. Grace is in fact, a gift and it is not something we have to earn by giving others grace.By following Gods example, we should also give others this same grace God gave us, but it is not a requirement in order for us to receive His grace. Overall, I feel spiritually strengthened by this book and would encourage others to read it. While it was difficult to understand sometimes, a secondary wordy, I find that many would also enjoy this book. It offers a rush of insight into grace and how it can be a blessing in our lives, both by receiving it and giving it. Works Cited Yancey, Philip. Wh ats So Amazing about Grace?. Zondervan, 1997.