The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief by Larry Alex Taunton
Larry Taunton starts his book with being at the
table with an atheist and speaking about Christianity and the reality of grace. Then he recounts how he
and his wife want to adopt an orphan girl from Ukraine named Sasha. As they started the process of adoption, they couldn’t believe
what they encountered: corruption, an atheistic shaped country, and false
promises of the socialism; a clash of two cultures. The author connects the story of Sasha with
grace. He also describes how a world with atheistic believes would look like: a
cold and graceless world. But through Sasha’s story we can see that the world
is not beyond the healing power of grace…beyond ”the grace effect”.
The book was very interesting, because I wasn’t sure
if Larry Taunton and his family would bring the adoption to the end seeing the
corruption of the country, the bribes they had to pay and the horrible
conditions of the children in the orphanages. As I read the book I was very astonished
by the things the author described as being interesting in Ukraine: like cars
parking on the sidewalk, no toilet paper at the orphanages, pay the full rent
amount for the entire stay up-front, etc. These all are similar in my country (Romania),
these two countries are after all neighbors. Even the corruption which the
author described is present in our country and it is so hard to stand against
it. I think the author didn’t want to speak against Ukraine, but to show us
people who were indoctrinated to ignore the weak and poor people of the society
and look out for their own interests and how the atheistic view of man shifts
from being made in the image of God to being “more than a soulless animal”. I
enjoyed reading the book also because the author was well-informed with chosen sources, you could recognize that he has understanding for complex topics. I
recommend this book to those who can’t imagine how corruption still works in
some countries and to those who want to learn to be thankful of the place where
God has put them (in that family, house, country, etc).
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