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If God Is Love

Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World

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If God is love, why are so many Christians fearful, and why do so many church leaders sound hateful? Two controversial pastors address issues the church won't face, calling us to restore grace as the center of the Christian life.

o In If Grace Is True, Pastors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland revealed their belief that God will save every person. They now explore the implications of this belief, and its power to change every area of our lives. They attempt to answer one question: If we took God's love seriously, what would our world look like?

Gulley and Mulholland argue that what we believe is crucial and dramatically affects the way we live and interact in the world. Beliefs have power. The belief in a literal hell where people suffer eternally has often been used by the Church to justify hate and violence, which contradicts what Jesus taught about love and grace. The authors present a new vision for our personal, religious, and corporate lives, exploring what our world would be like if we based our existence on the foundational truth that God loves every person.

Gulley and Mulholland boldly address many controversial issues people in the pews have wondered about but churches have been unwilling to tackle. For too long, the Christian tradition has been steeped in negativity, exclusion, and judgment. Gulley and Mulholland usher us into a new age––an age where grace and love are allowed to reign.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 25, 2004
      Gulley and Mulholland's first book, If Grace Is True
      , outlined their belief that hell and Satan do not exist. Every person will come to salvation because of God's love for all. This, their second book together, is their answer to one question: "What could our world look like if we took seriously God's love for all people?" The two Quaker ministers present a brief apologetic for their belief in universal salvation, then focus on how to live with this belief. They suggest "a new world order," a phrase they acknowledge will startle many. That new order is one of grace in life, love, religion, giving, forgiveness, politics and justice. Those who posit that Scripture is inerrant, including its visions of God's wrath and judgment, will find little here to convince them otherwise. What they will find is a new way to live. Christians are called to treat everyone as family members loved by the Father, not to "save" them but to point them to God. This translates into a heart of forgiveness, giving generously to the world's needy, a politics of compromise rather than division and an understanding that justice doesn't mean revenge. Satan's existence and humanity's need for salvation aside, this book details well Christ's command to love others and how to live that out.

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      December 1, 2004
      Gulley and Mulholland's first book, If Grace Is True , outlined their belief that hell and Satan do not exist. Every person will come to salvation because of God's love for all. This, their second book together, is their answer to one question: "What could our world look like if we took seriously God's love for all people?" The two Quaker ministers present a brief apologetic for their belief in universal salvation, then focus on how to live with this belief. They suggest "a new world order," a phrase they acknowledge will startle many. That new order is one of grace in life, love, religion, giving, forgiveness, politics and justice. Those who posit that Scripture is inerrant, including its visions of God's wrath and judgment, will find little here to convince them otherwise. What they will find is a new way to live. Christians are called to treat everyone as family members loved by the Father, not to "save" them but to point them to God. This translates into a heart of forgiveness, giving generously to the world's needy, a politics of compromise rather than division and an understanding that justice doesn't mean revenge. Satan's existence and humanity's need for salvation aside, this book details well Christ's command to love others and how to live that out.

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      October 1, 2004
      Gulley, a minister, and Mulholland, a theologian, turn the popular slogan "God is love" into a question that opens a Pandora's box of unanswered queries that some prefer remain unanswerable. If God is love, how are those who profess belief in God to act? If God is love, how does Christianity explain the vastly accepted dualistic theology of heaven and hell? If God is love, how can Christians live in God's grace? How can we continue to hate, slander, murder, and condemn our neighbors? If God is love, and God commands us to love our enemies, how can we justify war? Gently taking organized religion to task for perpetuating its power to control people, and only slightly lacing their discussion with their personal political opinions, the two Quakers propose ways to live, work, play, and be in a state of grace. Many may fault their approach for seeming overly simple at times. Yet anyone searching for a "graciousness primer" might look on this book as a commonsense example of such a manual.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)

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