All Saints-by-the-Sea Book Club on Sept. 8: “What’s So Amazing About Grace?”

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In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, “I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge. . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them.” His words caught the media’s ear–and out of one man’s grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the church’s great distinctive. It’s the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else–for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world.  What is grace? If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? 

These are just two questions the All Saints Book Club will be exploring during our next meeting, Monday, September 8th, when we meet to discuss Philip Yancey’s What’s So Amazing About Grace?

Join us in the Parish House at 6 p.m. for a potluck dinner and lively discussion of Yancey’s personal and provocative book on a most poignant topic. Contact the Church Office with questions.