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In Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love, Jerry Bridges explains why accepting salvation by grace and then trying to live by works is not God's idea. God wants us to live by grace--completely relying on the righteousness of Christ and relating to God based on the performance of Christ, not our own performance.
The truth that Bridges presents in this book is both freeing and inspiring. It frees us to live as God intended--rejoicing in the relationship we have with God through Christ. And it inspires us to live in a way that God describes is grace-filled.
From the back of the book:
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.
Of course, God continues to deal with us on the basis of His grace, whether or not we understand it. It's just that when we don't, we forgo the abundant freedoms that come from not having to measure up.
The product of over 10 years of Bible study, Transforming Grace is a fountainhead of inspiration and renewal that will show you just how inexhaustible and generous God's grace really is-you'll never be able to ask for too much, need too much, hope for too much, or even sin too much. Like a never-ending stream of ocean waves crashing on the shore, His grace "superabounds" toward you without measure.
