Summary of David Jeremiah's Captured By Grace

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#1 In 2004, a teenager in New York City was able to throw a twenty-pound turkey through a woman’s windshield, breaking every bone in her face. The media ran with the story, and people were outraged. But it was the victim who asked for leniency.

#2 When love is returned for evil, we can’t help but stop and stare. Grace is shocking, like the heavenly converse of a traffic accident. It renounces the entire conventional wisdom of social behavior.

#3 The idea of grace has the power to transform people. It is the magnificent ideal by which Paul would measure his life and yours. It is the same power that transformed a ruthless slave trader to a timeless troubadour of liberation.

#4 John Newton, a pastor, wrote the famous hymn Amazing Grace in 1773. It was not until the nineteenth century that the familiar melody was created. The original hymn was titled Faith’s Review and Expectation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669397519

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 2004, a teenager in New York City was able to throw a twenty-pound turkey through a woman’s windshield, breaking every bone in her face. The media ran with the story, and people were outraged. But it was the victim who asked for leniency.

#2

When love is returned for evil, we can’t help but stop and stare. Grace is shocking, like the heavenly converse of a traffic accident. It renounces the entire conventional wisdom of social behavior.

#3

The idea of grace has the power to transform people. It is the magnificent ideal by which Paul would measure his life and yours. It is the same power that transformed a ruthless slave trader to a timeless troubadour of liberation.

#4

John Newton, a pastor, wrote the famous hymn Amazing Grace in 1773. It was not until the nineteenth century that the familiar melody was created. The original hymn was titled Faith’s Review and Expectation.

#5

The final stanza of Amazing Grace, which was written by Edwin Othello Excell in 1909, replaced verses four, five, and six with four lines that John Newton never wrote.

#6

The hymn Amazing Grace was first published in a hymnal in 1850, and it has since been used at many events of magnitude. It has become a de facto national anthem for events of magnitude.

#7

The hands of John Newton were empty. He had no formal education, and spent his youth rebellious and mixing and matching convenient ideas to create his own religion. He was taken prisoner at