How long does it take to read The Ragamuffin Gospel?
Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning takes about 4 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 227 pages, about 62,425 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat ourselves up over our failures and, in the process, pull away from God because we subconsciously believe He tallies our defects and hangs His head in disappointment. In this newly repackaged edition—now with "A Guide for Reflection and Prayer" and the author’s own epilogue, “The Scandal of Grace, Ten Years Later”—Brennan Manning reminds us that nothing could be further from the truth. The Father beckons us to Himself with a “furious love” that burns brightly and constantly. Only when we truly embrace God’s grace can we bask in the joy of a gospel that enfolds the most needy of His flock—the “ragamuffins.” Are you bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out? Most of us believe in God's grace—in theory. But somehow we can't seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet. Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we've done. We come to him a regamuffins—dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objecs of His "furious love." Brennan Manning's now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it—simple honesty—has changed thousands of lives. It will change yours, too.
Subjects: Love, God, God (Christianity), Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christian life
