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The Great Work of the Gospel | John Ensor

by Josh McCarnan on August 27th, 2007

The Great Work of the GospelJohn Ensor. The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace. Crossway, 2006. 192 pp.

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In the Introduction, John Ensor lays the foundation of the book by fleshing out and describing The Human Experience of God’s Outworking Grace. He gives three reasons for doing so: “because the problem is the greatest of all problems,” “because the solution is the most excellent of all solutions,” and “because the change it produces is the most extreme change possible.” He defines the terms and sets the parameters that will guide and drive the discussions throughout the rest of the book. He lists the ingredients with which he will craft an incredible feast for the mind. So we too will experience the, “the sin-forgiving gift of it, the guilt-removing power of it, the soul-satisfying joy of it, the cross-suffering mystery of it, the conscience-cleansing experience of it, the life-transforming quality of it, the muscular faith-building impact of it, the eternally reconciling splendor of it.”

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