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Brennan Manning |
- how great God’s love for us is,
- the all sufficiency of Grace, and how little, if anything we need to do to receive His grace, and
- how little we appreciate and appropriate the above and how little we are changed by it
“Since the day Jesus first appeared, we have developed vast theological systems, organised world-wide churches, filled libraries with brilliant Christological scholarship, engaged in earth shaking controversies, and embarked on crusades, reforms and renewals. Yet there are few of us who make the mad exchange for everything for Christ … only a minority of us who stagger about with the delirious joy of the man who found the buried treasure.” Or in the words of Paul to the Galatians, “Where is all your joy?”
“Grace means that in the middle of our struggles the referee blows the whistle. We are declared the winners. It is all over for huffing and puffing piety to earn God’s favour. It’s the end of competitive pushing and shoving to get ahead of others in the game. We may as well head to the showers and champagne.”
“Francis Schaeffer said ‘True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.’ This book lays no claim to originality ; it is simply a commentary on Schaeffer’s statement. As C. S. Lewis is fond of saying: People need more to be reminded than to be instructed.”