Yancey on Brokenness

Philip Yancey, that most exquisite of evangelical writers, has an excellent, brief article on sin and brokenness that I read this morning. Yancey’s take on things connects deeply with me. The connection between sin and brokenness at both the personal and social level is one that I have spent a lot of time pondering. (You can read my own article “Broken and Weak” on this topic at Relevant Magazine’s online site here.)

Here’s the final paragraph of the article, but I must say that it will be worth your while to read the whole thing:

God’s grace, the only solution to death and evil, comes free of charge, apart from law, apart from any human efforts toward self-improvement. For a free gift, we need only hold out open, needy hands—the most difficult gesture of all for a self-righteously evil person.