Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World

In a time of division and discord, grace seems in vanishing supply. Why? And what can we do about it?

I set out to write a book on the endangered state of grace and ended up writing four short books, all related and bound inside the same cover.

All four sections have roots in a book I wrote almost twenty years ago. Originally, I had titled it What’s So Amazing About Grace and Why Don’t Christians Show More of It? until the publisher persuaded me to drop those last eight words. The question, though, has only grown more urgent in recent years.

Like a sudden thaw in the middle of winter, grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace. Yet not everyone has tasted of that amazing grace, and not everyone believes in it.

—Philip Yancey