“The Grace of God” by Andy Stanley is a beautifully executed picture of God’s grace and how, even in the things we find hard to understand—our lives are simply SWIMMING in it. His writing style is incredibly easy to understand and connect with, and somehow makes confusing and easily misinterpreted passages of the bible concise and simple and beautifully relevant to our own lives.
Stanley’s points are made through the retelling of well known bible stories, and not a chapter goes by that isn’t filled with God’s word pointing again and again to the beautiful truths of God’s great and overwhelming grace for humanity. From the tales of Abraham to David to Stephen to many more, Stanley explores an incredibly wide variety of beautiful stories of simple people just like you and me, full of flaws and weakness and pain that God pours out his grace upon and uses to accomplish amazing things. Stanley also explores some fascinating areas of grace with unique insight—such as the ever debated subject of laws and salvation—how a God of grace can “demand” such high standards and still be considered “gracious”—but he presents a consistently winning argument for every question presented that God is a good God and his plans for us are beyond amazing despite all the ways we mess up and despite everything the world throws us at us—his grace is more than sufficient.
I have certainly read books of more earth-shattering revelations than this, but I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy to read book that will leave you encouraged and at rest with the awesomeness of God’s mercy in our lives.
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