Arresting Grace

Résumé du livre

Michael Green expected many things from his 38th year. None of them included getting arrested for a DUI, driving home from a church dinner of all things. It wasn't in the plan.

"Arresting Grace" is a story of faith and grace as encountered, not in the mega-churches of our suburbs, but in 21st century Los Angeles. In the city, grace isn't something you think you need, until you're desperate for it.

Michael isn't just a professing Christian, but a visible leader in his church community. For his DUI--at twice-the-legal-limit--Michael readies himself for punishment, and scorn. Instead, friends encourage him in his repentance. When his relationship with a woman from the Bay Area, tender, radiant Jesse, gets serious, Michael thinks he's found the lesson: grace abounds. That is, until Jesse's Korean-American parents strongly disapprove of him, and Jesse's commitment wavers.

Grace's gift may be simple, but patience is a lot more complicated.

Thoughtfully written and raw, with unflinching honesty, "Arresting Grace" recalls such works as Donald Miller's "Blue Like Jazz" and Anne LaMott's "Grace (Eventually)." A man searches for answers most earnestly when he's brought low.