I finished Arresting Grace by Michael Joel Green over the weekend. This is a powerful read for anyone who needs a reality check in the area of grace…don’t we all! The story starts off with Green telling his own story of receiving a DUI and how that rocked his world. He got pulled over on the way home from a dinner with his church community group!
The entire book is fraught with great reminders of the grace we have received and the grace that we should be much more open to dispense to those around us. This book reads like a conversation with Green and is certain to impact you in some way, shape or form regardless of your own story. I appreciate Green’s authenticity and transparency in sharing some of the difficult valleys he has walked through on his way to this more complete understanding of the beauty and majesty of the grace of God.
I only highlighted a few things while reading, but they were powerful thoughts…
- Truth is always the healthy starting point, even if it’s the painful one.
- The trouble with living by grace is that it’s hard. It’s staggeringly hard. It would be much easier to live by morality, a strict code of behavior.
- A sense of entitlement provokes a spirit of discontentment and smugness.
