Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message Author: Michael L. Brown | Language: English | ISBN:
B00E78FTKW | Format: EPUB
Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message Description
The great deception of the 21st century
At a time when the church needs an urgent wake-up call and a fresh encounter with Jesus, the hyper-grace message is lulling many to sleep. Claiming to be a new revelation of grace, this teaching is gaining in popularity, but is it true? Or is the glorious truth of grace being polluted by errors, leading to backsliding, compromise, and even the abandonment of faith?
Hyper-Grace looks at the major teachings put forth by many adherents of this “grace reformation” and prayerfully compares those teachings with the Word of God, answering questions such as:
· How do our sins affect our relationship with God?
· What is the relevance of the Old Testament to our faith?
· What does Jesus actually have to say about grace?
Without watering down the Bible’s true message of grace, Michael Brown gives you the facts, demonstrating the dangers of this seductive message and showing you how to keep from being taken in.
- File Size: 882 KB
- Print Length: 303 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1621365891
- Publisher: Charisma House (January 7, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E78FTKW
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Rarely is a book responding to error within the church so timely, conscientious, and precise. While I value much grace teaching today and don't believe this is the final revelation on the subject, I must recommend Hyper-Grace to every believer exposed to modern grace teaching.
Dr. Michael Brown's Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message is a much needed response to the deluge of popular new grace theology in the church today. In a respectful but emphatic tone Dr. Brown interacts with a large variety of popular "grace movement" teachers and doctrines, highlighting both liberating truth and destructive error. Hyper-Grace carries out a systematic examination, asking difficult questions, examining a wealth of scriptural interpretation, and thoroughly interacting with the main tenets of new "grace theology" in a clear and engaging way.
The table of contents alone posits questions that both "grace teachers" and those examining their theology need to answer: "Has God Already Forgiven our Future Sins?" "Should Believers Confess their Sins to God?" "[Are we]Sanctified or Not?" "Is Spirituality Effortless?" "Is God Always in a Good Mood?" "Why are we Running from the Words of Jesus?" Dr. Brown's chapters also ask if the Holy Spirit convicts unbelievers and/or believers of sin and if so should we repent? and what does that mean? The fact that many of these questions have risen means that foundational Christian teaching and understanding is being questioned. Many believers who have taken answers to these questions for granted must go back to the Word and examine why they believe what they believe. Dr. Brown quotes large portions of published works naming specific teachers and interacting with the teacher's comments themselves sometimes positively and often negatively.
While reading this book I was impressed with Dr Brown efforts to create a dialog based on scripture, reason and common sense. Yet as I read the other reviews it quickly became obvious that the majority of the negative reviews will be reviews of the title alone. If parents of today put no restraints upon their children, and injury or death is a result of their negligence, then these parents can be charged with a crime. Which begs the question, is God a bad father ?
The Word of God has never been pick and choose, for the Bible says that all scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16. Yet Dr Brown gives many examples of hyper-grace teachers removing or rearranging the Word of God to support their teachings.
While reading these examples I remembered a game that came out in the early 1970's. The name of the game was Jenga. The game consisted of 54 wooden building blocks. Following instructions you utilized all these blocks in building a tower. The object of the game was for each player to take turns removing blocks from the bottom of the tower, then placing them on the top without causing the tower to topple. The winner was the last individual to complete a safe move. Like Dr Brown, I am amazed at many of the beautiful revelations brought out by these teachers, but when they remove the word to support some of their statements, then they and their followers are in grave danger of causing the very foundation of their salvation to crumble. Some of these individuals are even willing to remove the words of Jesus Christ, the chief cornerstone to support their new revelations. Ephesians 2:19-21.
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