The Message of Grace (Following God Discipleship Series)

Grace is a marvelous subject that can never be exhausted in one study. Although grace has the distinction of being in the title of many of the church names as well as the subject of many songs and hymns that are sung today, very few understand what it is all about and how to apply it to everyday life. All of God’s goodness is found in grace.

Many well-meaning believers have wandered away from “grace” and have strayed back under legalism. They have fallen into a performance mentality, and, as a result, they are burned out, bitter discouraged, critical, and wondering if they were ever even saved to begin with.

Church life for many of these believers has become their only way to measure their spirituality and not intimacy with Christ as found in their daily walk. Many times these people have been deceived and are the ones who stand at the doors of the church and greet you outwardly with a gracious smile and an outstretched arm, while inwardly they are overcome with frustration and defeat.


God’s Word tells us that there is more to Christian life than living each day in fear and shame. We can have victory by learning what the Bible tells us is real living.

Book is part of the Following God Discipleship series.

Wayne Barber was a graduate of Mars Hill College. He attended Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He received an honorary doctorate from North Florida Baptist Theological Seminary in Jacksonville, Florida and Covington Theological Seminary in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Wayne has been Senior Pastor in churches in Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and New Mexico.
Wayne has been a renowned national and international conference ministry speaker, his primary goal of ministry was to spread the message of “the sufficiency of Christ.” People around the world connected with Wayne’s unique ability to make God’s Word come alive through his honest and open “real-life” experiences. Wayne authored or co-authored several books, including The Rest of Grace, published in 1998, as well as seven books that are part of AMG Publishers’ Following God® series.
For many years he wrote a regular column in AMG’s Pulpit Helps monthly magazine. For more than twenty years he served as Senior Pastor-Teacher of Woodland Park Baptist Church. And for many of those years in Chattanooga, Wayne co-taught with noted author Kay Arthur of Precept Ministries and has studied under Dr. Spiros Zodhiates, who was one of the world’s leading Greek scholars.
On August 29, 2016, Wayne passed away suddenly after a short illness. He is survived by his wife and two grown children and several grandchildren.