What's So Amazing About Grace? Leader's Guide

by Philip Yancey, author of The Jesus I Never Knew

• ISBN13: 9780310233268
• ISBN10: 0310233267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

Experience the Impact of GraceIt's one thing to talk about grace; it's another to taste its power. What's So Amazing About Grace? Groupware takes you and your study group for interactive, gut-level encounters with radical, life-changing grace. Through candid video interviews, Philip Yancey integrates true-life faces and experiences with 10 powerful sessions that will rock your preconceptions, get you thinking and talking, and help you discover together why grace is more amazing than you've ever dreamed.As group leader, you'll find this Leader' Guide an invaluable companion.It makes facilitating What's So Amazing About Grace? group studies easy and enjoyable. Simply follow the clear, easy-to-follow instructions, plug in the video, and let Philip Yancey introduce you and your group to each session.The tips and insights will help you help your group experience the full, transforming impact of the What's So Amazing About Grace? Groupware. Space is provided for you to personalize each session with your own planning notes.Because this book also includes the pages from the Participant's Guide, organized to help you track page for page with your group, it's the only guidebook you need.If you're ready to discover grace as more than just a fluffy concept, buckle your seat belt. You and your group are about to take a journey to the radical heart and soul of Christianity. The next life grace changes could be yours.What's So Amazing About Grace? Groupware complete kit includes:1 120-minute video containing introductions by Philip Yancey, complete with live interviews and other material1 Participant's Guide (additional copies may be purchased separately)1 Leader's Guide with everything you need for conducting powerful sessions with minimal preparation1 hardcover copy of the book What's So Amazing About Grace?

Author Biography

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He and his wife live in Colorado.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(1)
Preface	7	(1)
Philip Yancey
Contents of This Kit	7	(1)
Required Materials	8	(1)
How This Leader's Guide Is Organized	8	(3)
Before Each Session	11	(1)
Tips for Leading Group Discussion	11	(5)
The Missing Ingredient: A Beautiful Word, a Powerful Concept	16	(14)
Letting Grace Soak In: God's Love for the Undeserving	30	(12)
An Unnatural Act: Extending Grace When You've Been Wronged	42	(10)
The Art of Forgiving: Responding with Grace When It Seems Impossible	52	(10)
Skin-Deep: The Power of Grace to Penetrate Racism	62	(12)
Grace Put to the Test: Grace in the Face of Disagreement	74	(10)
Grace Abuse: Cheapening Grace and Robbing Its Power	84	(10)
The Church Backslides: How Legalism Corrupts Grace	94	(10)
Dispensing Grace: How Can We Do It?	104	(10)
Counterforce: Grace Set Loose in the World	114	(10)
About the Writers	124