My Takeaway: Grace really is the central message of the Gospel.
I have been meandering through this book for a while. I bought it pre-release when it was sold at church (full disclosure, I go to Buckhead Church, Andy Stanley is my pastor.) Then Thomas Nelson gave away the ebook if you signed up on the Facebook page. So I waited for the ebook to come out. Thomas Nelson only distributed it in PDF (they really should know better). So I tried converting it to kindle format using Calibre and it did not look that great. I eventually finished the book by reading it as a pdf on the iPad, a far from perfect experience.
This is my first of Andy Stanley’s explicitly theological books. I have read some of his leadership books and I think leadership is where he really shines. He is a great preacher and having attended the church for a while I can recall some of the sermons this was based on. It is not a sermon series turned to book form. But there are a few things that I recognize from earlier sermons. I think there is just as much that will be in future sermons. In fact, I recognize a couple quotes from the book as being in the last two week’s sermons and the book has been in my house for the past couple months.