Max Lucado, adapted for teens by James Lund
Thomas Nelson, 2012, 165 pp., $14.99
If our teenagers truly understood grace, wouldn’t it save them so much heartache in this life? Max Lucado and James Lund attempt in 10 reasonably short chapters of Wild Grace to get young people to come to grips with just how life-changingly free it is to live under the grace of God.
Lucado’s words of wisdom are interlaced with stories of real teenagers discovering God’s grace in their lives. Also interspersed throughout each chapter are questions with space for readers to fill in their own thoughts and interject themselves and their own stories into the book.
The formatting and questions are well done and appropriate for a teenage audience who is authentically seeking to understand the grace of God. If the reader is diligent and has an accurate appraisal of him or herself, he or she will find this book beneficially makes him or her grapple with what God is doing in his or her own heart.
Due to the high level of commitment on the part of the reader and the lofty topic, if you are getting this book for a less mature teenager, it will be best completed in the context of community. Whether that’s with a professional youth worker, volunteer or the student’s family will be up to you; but any means to give your teenagers a better understanding of grace and more of God is worth considering.
