Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels - Softcover

"Many of us think we now God's heart better than we do. We think we have a good handle on what should and should not be acceptable to God. But God has never conformed to our faulty assumptions about his character. Indeed, his compassion and pardon are utterly shocking in their lavish abundance--a lesson learned the hard way by one man who kept resisting God's grace in whatever way he could. The man's name isn't new. It's Jonah, the famous Old Testament prophet. We find his story compelling because all ofus hestitate to follow God from time to time; Jonah's story has been our own. However, Tullian Tchividjian shows that the emphasis of our story is not on our disobedience, but on God's persistent grace"--Cover, p. 2.