An inadequate treatment of God's grace, November 16, 2003

Without wishing to repeat greggilbert3, biblical grace is about God's redemptive plan and forgiveness of unworthy sinners. It has nothing to do with the aspirations of people. Whilst "tolerance" may be a good thing per se (in the spirit that tolerance and "graceful" are rightly parts of the proper imitation of Christ), tolerance does not equal biblical grace. Throughout, Yancey appears to be speaking against fundamentalists in this book. He claims that grace is simply to lose one's intolerant ways. This is nothing short of a dis-grace. To change the meaning of grace away from the biblical standard in such a way is a tragic symptom of the modern watering-down of the Gospel. Naturally anyone who is a fan of Yancey's will not agree with this and will probably give me an 'unhelpful' vote. But just slow down and have a think about it in the light of the full history of Christian thought on the subject.

I, for one, prefer to stick with certain publishers I know I can trust: Banner of Truth, Evangelical Press, Christian Focus and Covenanter Press.

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