Product Description

You’ll never be able to ask for too much, need too much, hope for too much. God's grace will transform you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44224 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 265 pages

About the Author
JERRY BRIDGES is an author and Bible teacher. His most popular title, The Pursuit of Holiness, has sold over one million copies. He has authored several other books including Trusting God and The Discipline of Grace (both NavPress). Jerry is currently a part of the Navigator collegiate ministry group where he is involved in staff training and serves as a resource to campus ministries.

Customer Reviews

Transforming Grace Transformed My Life
A pastor friend of mine once said, "We love grace, just not free grace". In this book Jerry Bridges displays the beauty of free grace. His fundamental cry in this book is summed up nicely on the back cover: "Funny how the exceeding riches of God's grace seem to run out the moment we're saved. From then on, we tend to base our relationship with Him on our performance rather than on His grace." Throughout this book the reader is consistently brought back to the sufficiency of unadulterated grace.

Practical and theological. Simple yet profound. This book would cause the greatest scholar to pause and grounds up the meat in such a way that even the newest of babes could feast on it. Grace shines in this work by Jerry Bridges.

Since reading this book I have quoted it more than any other book. It is highly readable and its principles are not difficult to remember. This book is one of those rare jewels that stick with you. At least in my life it has been something the Lord has used to consistently remind me to "preach the gospel to myself".

A great mark of a Christian book is that it causes a deeper love for God and throughout reading it you break out into praise and awe. One of Bridge's goals seems to have been to overwhelm us with the greatness of God and the freeness of His grace. He succeeds.

Should You Buy It?

You would be absolutely foolish not to buy this book. Buy it, read it, give it away and then buy another. Whether you consider yourself a scholar or a simpleton you should buy this book. This book is for every type of person because God's grace is for every type of person. If you do not buy this book you will be in dire need for grace! (Well, even if you do buy it you still need grace, but the point stands--buy the book!).

A beginner's book
- better for beginners. (I may have really enjoyed this book a long time ago. However, for the seasoned Christian, there is little to be learned, with some exceptions.)
- find some doctrinal questions still hanging around at the end of the book. (If you accept doctrine of salvation that Mr. Bridges holds, 'ticket to heaven'), you may run into some contradictions. "What motivating principle will cause a person to live no longer for God but for himself?" (P81) His answer (grace) is not sufficient if contextualized within the doctrine of getting a 'ticket' to heaven upon at conversion. Nothing precludes the person from drifting backwards.

Authentically Living by Grace
This book by Jerry Bridges is a smart, well-reasoned work that forces the Christian to examine whether they truly are living by grace, or whether they subtly have reverted to a form of works-righteousness.

Most Christians have no problem with the concept that we can do nothing to earn salvation, but many become hung up afterward in thinking that they must perform in order to keep God's favor or receive certain blessings in life. Bridges reassures the reader that if they are authentically saved, there is nothing that they can do to cause God to reject them. The Christian wholeheartedly obeys God's commandments, Bridges teaches, not because he is afraid of incurring God's wrath if he fails to do so, but out of a sense of gratitude for God's awesome mercy and grace.

Bridges writes a very useful chapter on legalism and some of the conflicts that it creates. He discusses the differences between legalism, liberty, and license, and gives wise advice about how to deal with those issues.

This book covers many of the same themes as Chuck Swindoll's "The Grace Awakening", but does so from an explicitly Reformed perspective. It is a great book for Christians who somehow feel that they "haven't done enough" to earn God's favor.