Grace is a dangerous topic. We want to domesticate it, calm it down, and stuff it into a blue blazer and a pair of khakis. But biblical grace—or charis—doesn’t like to settle down. Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book.
Scandalous Grace flows from the author’s half dozen years of teaching the Old Testament to college students. You might think that would produce a book about judgment — but he shows how every character, every event, every single page of the Old Testament bleeds grace. Rather than looking for heroes to emulate — readers discover a gracious God who loves to redeem the unredeemable.