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'THE RAGAMUFFIN GOSPEL' A BOOK OF GOOD NEWS: Brennan Manning wrote for the bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-up.
Manning understands better than most that behind our facades of order and self-assurance are inadequacies that can find healing only in Jesus. While the powerful and religious elite challenged him, Jesus embraced and healed and fed the needs of the ragamuffins. Jesus delivered love, health and most of all, grace.
Grace is defined as “the freely given and unmerited favor and love of God.” Manning feels the Gospel has been twisted from a Gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. In reality, he says, God offers us grace, immeasurably. He speaks of having taken a journey from priesthood and academic achievement through a collapse into alcoholism. Manning came face to face with his need to finally abandon himself to grace. Brennan invites us now to join him in a life of grace.
Manning is without doubt one of the most eloquent writers on the subject of grace because he openly shares his own pain and struggles and helps readers deal with failure and inadequacy. He challenges them to do the same.
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