A Manifesto of Grace: Second Edition

This book is about salvation by God's grace. If you were to ask the average Christian if he believed in salvation by grace, most would respond with an emphatic, "Yes." I know because I have asked people from many Christian faiths and each response has been in the affirmative. Why wouldn't it be? It would be an insult to God to suggest otherwise - "Yes, I believe that salvation is by grace." But when you ask them to explain grace, things get a little fuzzy. Their answers are very different. In other words, there are various attachments to their concept of what salvation by grace really is - how they, personally, were saved by grace. These attachments include reading the sinner's prayer, the waters of baptism, accepting Jesus, reciting some words, going down the Roman road, or participating in a church ritual. Yes, something is usually attached to the concept of what most Christians refer to as, "salvation by grace." Many Christians have realized that there are glaring differences among Christian churches concerning what is required for salvation, and the different explanations to salvation by grace. They realize that those who read the sinner's prayer didn't accept Jesus as the others did. The ones that accepted Jesus did not read the sinner's prayer. Those who relied on their baptism put no confidence in the other two. Yet, they all say they were saved by grace. Most of us have heard some very humorous stories about these glaring differences and which group is really going to heaven: "The Baptists are in one room and they think they are the only ones up here. Don't tell them the Methodists are down the hall." So, what I am saying is nothing new for most believers. They realize there are many different concepts concerning salvation by grace. Is anyone right, or is everyone right?In my personal experience I was in that category. I came to the same conclusion as many others have: it really doesn't matter which thing you did, as long as a person is sincere and did something, heaven is yours. No one is really right. We won't know who is right till we get to heaven and look in all the rooms. Yet, there was a tinge of unrest in my own soul - am I in the right room down here? But we don't have to wait till we get to heaven and look in all the rooms. Nor do we have to live with unrest in our own soul. There is a lens through which we may look and see how people from various Christian faiths, who have done different things to be saved, are really saved in exactly the same way. That lens is something we all know. It is God's amazing grace and it is manifested all over the Bible. This brings peace.That is the purpose of this book, to look at grace in the face of a loving Savior, Jesus Christ. He is a successful Savior. He saved His people and ...they are saved. I hope to expose God's grace in its original manifestation. I also hope to expose God's everlasting covenant, made between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - a much neglected topic in our modern Christian arena. I want you to see grace in the same way that Paul and the other apostles believed it...and preached it. But more importantly, I want you to experience it. That is my prayer for you.The debate among Christians is not, "Did all of humanity fall in Adam?" Every knowledgeable Christian believes that. The debate lies in a more defined proposition: "How far did man fall?" Many have placed election in Pandora's box and never open it. Every Christian that I have ever met agrees with Jesus when He said: "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." (John 3:7) They all agree - you must be born again to go to heaven. But how this new birth takes place varies among Christians. Thankfully, God is faithful to regenerate all of His elect...even those who are at odds with Him on how it is done.

Author: Neil Phelan

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: Oct 08, 2018

Number of Pages: 167 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1729426549

ISBN-13: 9781729426548