I want the people who read this book to understand this. Friendship is subjective. And while we enjoy a personal friendship with the invisible God, we also need to remember that this same God is staggeringly awe-inspiring. We evangelicals need to recover our appreciation for the mysteries of our faith. Christians Fail Less.
Evangelical theology has a narrow picture of how church life and faith life work.
God, far from preferring comfortable, middle-class Western Christians, seems to prefer the ones on the fringe. Yancey himself prefers the fringy questions, the hard ones, the ones that are complicated and ambiguous. Having chosen a topic that can be nettlesome to both believers and unbelievers, Philip Yancey leads us through the maze of our human doubts to a clearer understanding of our potential for true faith in a living God who remains invisible. He plans a second book to address the more practical issues of our relationship with God such as the specifics of prayer and guidance. So Amazing About Grace were also awarded the Book of the Year.