Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Book Review: The Grace Effect, by Larry Alex Taunton

The Grace Effect, by Larry Alex Taunton, is a fantastic journey through the author’s  family’s adoption experience, meanwhile sharing how the Christian belief of grace can affect society as a whole.
As an adoptive parent, I thoroughly enjoyed his account of their roller-coaster journey to adopt their daughter, Sasha. The corruption and trials they faced along the way was heart wrenching. It is amazing that corruption like that still exists so long after socialism officially ended in Ukraine.
At first I wasn’t sure how Taunton was going to tie their adoption experience in with his theme of the “power of one life can reverse the corruption of unbelief.” It was clear that Sasha was going to have a life changing experience, but it was unclear how that would have any effect in “reverse(ing) the corruption of unbelief.” The final chapter and epilogue neatly tied the theme in with the observations and opinions stated throughout the rest of the book.
I also enjoyed the timeliness of this book with the events happening around the nation known as “Occupy Wall Street.” Many of the “occupiers” hope for a more socialist government in the United States, distributing the wealth of “the one ” percent  to the masses while eliminating Christian values, somehow hoping it will solve the nation’s economic difficulties. This book gives proof that socialism would not make America a better place, but would induce poverty and suffering as seen in the post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe.
My favorite quote of the book: Fascists think society’s problems are a question of race… Communists think it a question of economics, a class war. Seize private property and redistribute it equally and-voila!- utopia. Atheists think the problem is religion. Environmentalists blame industrialization. Democrats blame Republicans. Republicans blame Democrats. Everyone agrees that there is a problem, but efforts to identify the source of it are incomplete, misguided, or evil.” (pages 214-215)
This perfectly sums up the problems of our nation and the world. Our society would indeed collapse with the removal of “the grace effect” passed around by the vast number of Christians. I hope and pray that the results of the former Soviet Union never show up here in America, or it would cease to be the nation that it was intended to be.
disclosure: the publisher has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book through BookSneeze®.

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