Searching for the God of Grace: Before Our Hopes, Before Our Fears, Before Religion--

Searching for the God of Grace: Before Our Hopes, Before Our Fears, Before Religion Everyone should read this book, especially every Adventist, and anyone interested in the subject of grace. Read it with a highlighter because you will want to reread and share it with others. God's grace is God's love for you!

The author takes a historical perspective of God's Grace through out the Bible starting with the more difficult place to identify Grace in the old testament, and then through Christian history. It was directed to Seventh-day Adventists but is clearly applicable to any seeking person that senses any legalistic influence. It was really thrilling to be convinced that a foundation laid by God's Grace precedes the transforming love that responds to this fact affecting behavior! An excellent guide to happiness by engulfing grace!

Are you good enough? Do you have enough faith to be saved? Stuart Tyner takes on the time-worn debate about salvation (by works or by faith?) and provides a most interesting answer - neither! We are saved by grace. It is nothing of ours - neither works nor faith - but the marvelous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that saves us. This well-researched and well-written book presents grace as you've probably never known it before - historically, spiritually, practically. Tyner traces grace from the eternity before the earth's creation, through the Biblical records, the early Christian church, and right up to and including the present. He defines grace as "God doing for humans that which is impossible for us to do for ourselves." He understands grace as "a moment-by-moment reminder that God's role in our salvation is to save us, and our role is to quit trying to save ourselves." Here is another beautiful sample of his writing: "Grace is not the beginning point of the Christian journey; it is the road upon which journeying Christians walk day by day, moment by moment. Grace is not a robe Christians put on in order to be correctly dressed; it is the air Christians breathe in order to live." Wow! A terrific individual read, Searching for the God of Grace can also serve Bible study groups well, as every chapter includes thought-provoking questions for thought and discussion. And there are still other aspects that recommend this book: a helpful glossary, a comprehensive bibliography, biographical notes, a scripture index, and a succinct subject index.