The Grace Effect
Yesterday morning, I opened up The Grace Effect by Larry Alex Taunton. And I had to finish. Since there were lots of other things I had to take care of during the day, I read the book in spurts, but I finished nonetheless. At just over 200 pages, it is a quick read. Larry Taunton is a Christian apologist who, inspired by his family's experience adopting a daughter from the Ukraine, explores what society would look like if atheists had their way and what grace has to do with it all. Long story short, a society without God, without Christ, is a society devoid of grace. A world without grace has no hope for survival and no reason to care. Larry begins the book by stating that he not attempting to prove the existence of God nor to defend religion. He says he is writing the book "with the layperson in mind" to explain why the world needs Christianity, yet it seemed to me that he used quite a few complex words and phrases when there were s...