The is one of the most powerful books I have read in a long time. After reading The Ragamuffin Gospel, I have a deeper awareness of my own need for God's grace and my own brokenness. The American Church likes to sing about the word "grace," but it can be difficult to truly understand that no good works, no perfect life, no balancing of the scales can even make a dent in the magnitude of what Christ has done for us. This book makes me desire to each day be more and more like Mary Magdalene as she wiped the feet of Jesus with her hair than like the Pharisees that proclaimed their own goodness from the street corners. Read this book.