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Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God Kindle Edition

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D. R. Silva once again challenges the giants of religious tradition, in Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God. This time Silva takes on an idea that has had a resurgence in popularity after Dr. Michael Brown published his book, “Hyper-Grace.” Does emphasizing the goodness of God make people want to sin? Many in “the modern grace movement” (and even the Apostle Paul himself) have been accused of promoting sin because they emphasize the goodness of God over the obligation to uphold the Mosaic law. In this short book, Silva breaks down the the popular perspectives of those in the “grace movement” and reveals exactly what they are and are not saying. Does God’s willingness to forgive mean everyone is saved? What is repentance? Does God only forgive if you confess your sin and ask for forgiveness? All of these questions and more are answered clearly and practically with scripture.

This book also provides many scriptures to prove that it's actually the popular church traditions of today that are leading people into sin and deception, causing them to fall from Grace and become separated from Christ.

Like all of the great reformations in the past, we have once again reached a vital fork in the road where we must make the choice of whether we will desperately cling to our old traditions (which Jesus warned, "nullify the word of God"), or if we will actually "test everything" for ourselves and consider whether or not this is the gospel of good news that our traditions have kept hidden from us for so long. Where we choose to go next will have a tremendous impact on the future of the church and the world, for many generations to come. Let us choose wisely then, not coming to conclusions impulsively!
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D. R. Silva is a best selling author and compulsive question asker. He is one of the leading voices in what has been deemed "the modern grace movement." In 2011 he founded SaintsNotSinners.org, which has helped tens of thousands of people around the world grow the courage to question everything. Currently he writes blogs at drsilva.net. 

His books include, It's All About Jesus, How to Overcome Sin, and the #1 best-seller on Amazon, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God. Silva is best recognized for his authentic and conversational writing style, and takes complex religious issues and makes them simple to understand. He currently resides in Havre, Montana.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DRSilva.net; 1st edition (January 18, 2014)
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D. R. Silva is a best selling author and compulsive question asker. He is one of the leading voices in what has been deemed "the modern grace movement." In 2011 he founded SaintsNotSinners.org, which has helped tens of thousands of people around the world grow the courage to question everything. Currently he writes blogs at drsilva.net.

His books include, It's All About Jesus, How to Overcome Sin, and the #1 best-seller on Amazon, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God. Silva is best recognized for his authentic and conversational writing style, and takes complex religious issues and makes them simple to understand. He currently resides in Havre, Montana.

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Joshua A. Greeson
5.0 out of 5 stars This “Hyper Grace” is the same scandalous Good News that Paul and the other apostles preached!
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014
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If you’ve heard horror stories about so-called Hyper-Grace, this book will help clear up the misunderstandings of what people THOUGHT they heard being preached. Our human pride HATES this message. Something in us longs for rules to keep, tests to pass, T’s to cross, and I’s to dot. Something in us longs to “deserve” a gift—or at least be obligated to pay back the One Who gave it.

But the Gospel is the awesome news of the absolutely free, no-strings-attached gift of right standing with God forever. It’s too easy. It’s “too good to be true!” But I say if the gospel we’re preaching isn’t too good to be true—then it probably isn’t! This “Hyper Grace” is the same scandalous Good News that Paul and the other apostles preached, and the same false rumors are spread about this awesome message and its teachers today as 2,000 years ago… But this is the message that turned the world upside down—and it’s doing it again!

If anything in us thinks we can or “should” earn, maintain, improve on, deserve or qualify for, or somehow “achieve” the free gifts of salvation, God’s love, the righteousness of God, forgiveness, holiness, right relationship with God, justification, a clean conscience, an enjoyable life for eternity, or union with Christ—we’re wrong! If we think any human effort whatsoever will warrant right standing with the Eternally Perfect God… then we are deceived, and “fallen from Grace.” God’s Grace is more than enough to do the job!

Whether we’re the worst of the worst, or a lifelong Christian on our best behavior—This revelation of God’s already-given love and grace, total forgiveness, and our true new identity in Christ is what delivers and transforms us. It’s a free gift—start to finish! It’s the renewing of our minds that causes us to be conformed to the image of Christ. It’s the truth we know that sets us free. The Good News really is good; and the more we understand it, the more we get to enjoy the freedom Christ paid for. I love D.R. Silva’s books; but any religious bone in someone’s body will NOT! This book does a world of good in clearing up the foundational truth of the all-sufficient finished works of Christ. GET. IT!
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Paul C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Change is coming...
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2014
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Having been in a Christian for over 30 years now, I always believed in the hell-fire and brimstone gospel, but deep within myself I could never match the "fire insurance gospel" with what the Bible said. Like many, I started my Christian walk in the '70s & '80s with pastors who preached legalism and short accounts. While our church moved in the miraculous, it was accompanied by a great sense of heaviness and burden. And miracles, signs and wonders in any church without the love of God set abroad in the hearts of the congregation means nothing in the end. Without the love of God, you will eventually burnout. I know. I did. And I watched it happen to many friends. I even watched our church get torn apart. That is where legalism and the "fire insurance gospel" will take you.

Young men like Daniel Silva have chosen to abandon those precepts, the confines and traditions of religion, and study the Scriptures through a whole new lens: the lens of the Finished Work of Jesus Christ. The truth is...the lens was always there...pastors and church authorities either willfully or ignorantly chose to approach the Bible as a book of rules rather than what it actually is...the roadmap to Jesus. It's all about Jesus, it's not really about the map. And many people have lost many years to this incorrect viewpoint. The fact that people spent many years in the old ways is one of the greatest stumbling blocks as to why Hyper-Grace is under attack, whether they know about it or not. No one wants to have to confront the fact they wasted years engaged in wrong believing. However, by biting the bullet and choosing to open their mind and heart, they will finally find the freedom they should have had from day one as a believer.

A happy God is indeed dangerous to the religious institution known as Christianity. Jesus said "It is Finished", it is the church today who is saying "It is not". Times are changing though, old-time religion is losing its hold, slowly but surely. This is why people like Dr. Brown are clawing tooth and nail to hold on to the old ways. Having read both this book and its legalistic counterpart paperback written by Michael Brown...I can say that this book by Daniel Silva is one that will truly set you on a good path.

Brown's concepts and defenses may come from the use of Bible passages, but it is plain to see that that the Finished Work of Jesus is not the centre of his viewpoint. I recognized sanded down, primed and repainted legalism when I see it. I have seen it all before. Brown claims that Hyper-Grace has destroyed lives and damaged the faith of many. I can say the same thing about "fire insurance", I have seen old-time religion destroy many lives personally, not to mention many prominent television minsters in the '80s who were sin-conscious chest-beaters and pulpit-thumpers...until they started sleeping with prostitutes, snorting dope and fleecing congregations themselves. They preached themselves into their own sins. Brownian grace creates classes of people and shows no love or mercy...or grace to those need it. I, for one, kept an open mind and have made a conscious decision to "repent" and choose to believe in the Goodness, not the "meanness" of God.

This book is excellent and it will challenge you. Daniel pulls no punches and gives it to you straight, and calls on you to read the Bible and check it out for yourself and see if what he is saying is true. And in my view, his book is in line with the Bible. As great as the book is for lining up with the Bible, I am more concerned with if it lines up with Jesus and His Finished Work. I say this because throughout history, the very content of the Bible has been used and twisted to justify all kind of atrocities and madness, but Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and so is His Finished Work.

In the end, you have to make a choice. There are over 30,000 denominations in the Body of Christ today, totaling at least 1.5 to 2 billion people. Will we all really have the same views and perceptions of Scripture? Or the Bible? Or God? I should think not. Just as we all have different fingerprints, we all have different points of view and different perceptions. All that is asked of you by Daniel as you read this book is that you think, ask questions and go back to the Bible to see it all works out.

In my view, it does. Excellent book, Daniel, and thank you.
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BRANDON H LAING
5.0 out of 5 stars The undiluted message of Grace is powerful, life changing and destroys the strength of sin!
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2014
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Since I read Daniel's first book, "It's all about Jesus", I have been looking forward to the next book.
And this one is just as good.
The following quote encapsulates the message of this book:
"Although nobody in the grace movement is saying grace is a license to sin (nor have they ever), it's often assumed that, since we don't emphasize the Law and push it on people like our accusers think we should, we must be endorsing sin and telling people it's okay to do whatever they want. In truth, we avoid pushing the Law because we believe what scripture says: that the Law increases sin (Romans 5:20), sin gets its strength from the Law (1 Cor. 15:56), the Law is the ministry of death (2 Cor. 3:6), the Law isn't based on faith (Gal. 3:12), and nobody can be made right with God through keeping the Law (Gal. 2:20). In fact, though many preachers will tell us today that it's sin that separates us from God, and we need to go back to His holy Law to be reconciled, scripture actually teaches the opposite. It says that the Law is what separates people from Christ and causes them to fall from grace (Gal. 5:4)."
Lets keep preaching an undiluted the message of pure grace that is powerful, life changing and that destroys the strength of sin!
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PJDowney
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this insightful book
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2014
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Daniel was very respectful in bringing the hyper grace message to the reader. This would be easily read from the opposing prospective and not feel bashed. Excellent read with the greatest of messages. That message being "Yes Gods Grace is Hyper. Thanks Daniel
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Oberst Harti
3.0 out of 5 stars Good to read...
Reviewed in Germany on March 8, 2014
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I actually enjoyed reading this book. I am not a "subscriber" to what is called "the grace message" in general. However, I found this book and its author to be much more balanced than some of the views I have encountered so far. I still disagree on some fundamental things but all in all, it is still an uplifting read, no matter what side of the issue you are on.
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Lisa Hunt
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2014
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D. R. Silva is a fantastic author and his new book is fascinating, fun and easy to read. He has definitely provided an excellent response to the anti hyper-grace movement. This book is a must read!
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Mark
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully articulates the false charges against the grace of God
Reviewed in Canada on May 27, 2015
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Beautifully articulates the false charges against the grace of God, and brings clarity to the true position of "grace preachers" and the grace as best articulated in the letters of Paul.
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Derek
5.0 out of 5 stars D. R.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2014
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D.R.Silva understands the Grace given by of our Lord Jesus Christ
Not only does he understands he also communicates the truth of Hyper-Grace to the reader
Life changing
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