really understood it and experienced it for the first time. God does it all, and we contribute nothing but our sinfulness. What a liberating message! Humbling, to be sure, but liberating just the same. It is no surprise that John Newton wrote “Amazing Grace” as a response to his discovery of the doctrines of grace we’ll be exploring in this book. God’s grace reorients our thinking, redirects our faith, and reignites our hope, filling us with a heartfelt joy that fuels us for lives of service and