The Person of Christ

by L. W. Grensted

Nisbett & Co Ltd, 1933, no reprints listed as I have seen on reprints. T

In his Preface to this book, Grensted writes: More recently I have been coming in very close touch with the work of the movement now known all over the world by the name of the Oxford Group. I owe much to that movement myself, and I have seen the effective power of God's grace working through it in many lives. It is inevitable that this experience, being so recent and so vivid, should to some extent have affected my presentation of a living Christianity … I have found that the Bible and the Church alike have come to mean more and not less, and that the Gospel which I was commissioned to preach is a Gospel that is with power to heal and to save.

Grensted breaks his book into four parts, including: An Introduction, The Facts, The Interpretation of the facts, and Faith and Practice. In summary, it is a study in the life and teachings of Christ, and the practical application to ones own life. The final part of Faith and Practice focus on several elements important to both the Oxford Group and AA members alike. These include surrender, acceptance, action, prayer, guidance and loyalty.

This book was listed on the rear of the dust jacket of AJ Russell’s For Sinners Only. Grensted wrote the forward in the book What is the Oxford Group?.