What's So Amazing about Grace? was written by the theologian Phillip Yancy and is.
Yancy starts off the reading by quoting theologian Karl Barth in.
saying that Jesus loves him because the Bible tells him so. Yancy tells the story of how the.
founders of Alcoholics Anonymous visited Dr. Bill D. Yancy says that Bill D. expresses the.
common lost of hope. Yancy continues by saying that he too occasionally senses the truth about.
grace. Yancy discusses thelooking-glass theory? which sociologists have developed. This.
theory says that people become what the most important person in their life thinks of them. .
Yancy tells how he grew up worshipping a mathematical God who judged one by weighing their.
moral choices. Yancy defines grace as a time when God can neither love you more nor less.
Yancy says he must do something in order to be accepted by God. Yancy adds the contrast of.
Augustine and Pelagius. Augustine was immoral yet started from God's grace. Pelagius thought.
he had to work to earn the grace of God. Yancy tells his March Madness story. He says that the.
championship game comes down to a kid shooting freethrows at the end of the game. He saw.
how one moment the kid was in complete fear of losing the game. After making both of the free.
throws, the kid is in complete grace with himself. Yancy concludes by questioning his own.
spiritual life.