This book was excellent in explaining the atonement and how to use it daily. I especially liked learning more about the enabling power of the atonement. It was written so it was very understandable.

5

A book that gives you incredible and amazing insight into the atonement and our role with the Savior.

I think I give this book five stars based on one of the first lines. He says something to the effect that if you are reading this book, you are doing okay. He writes of when he was a mission president, the missionaries who heard his words and tried to improve were already in a good place. I know I need to be more aware of the atonement on a daily basis. I liked on part where a missionary spoke with him about past things he had repented of coming back to him. How Wilcox interpreted that as the missionary drawing closer to the Savior, how we shouldn't forget the things we don't want to repeat. But that we also need to forgive ourselves. Overall I felt there was a message of hope and that is a worthy read.

What a beautiful book! As I read I felt the spirit testify of true principles. Thank you, Brad Wilcox, for helping me have such an uplifting experience.

This was a wonderful book. Through personal experiences and the teachings of prophets and apostles, Brother Wilcox highlights and illuminates the atonement. It is my belief that we need to learn as much as we can about the effects of this great gift in our lives. Brother Wilcox has helped with this challenging subject in an easy going manner that feels more like a conversation than a lecture. A worthwhile addition to better understanding.

Eh, this book was all right. I was pretty bored during the whole thing though, and I wouldn't read it again. A much better book is "I Need Thee Every Hour: Applying the Atonement in Everyday Life" by David Vandagriff, so if you're looking for a book on the Atonement to read, skip this one and go for Vandagriff's instead.

My favorite church book.

Wilcox's memorable insight regarding the continuous atonement is perhaps best captured in his analogy of a young Priest offering the sacrament prayers. They are among the few prayers that must be repeated perfectly, word by word. Yet what happens when the one offering the prayers doesn't get them right? The expectation of perfection cannot be lowered, but the one giving the prayers is given a second chance...and a third, fourth, or fifth, or however many times are needed. No matter how often he blows it, when he finally does get it right, it is accepted and counted as perfect. Similarly, we are given many opportunities to start over, and though perfection is our ultimate goal (Matthew 5:48), for now, in this imperfect and mortal life, we must be satisfied with progress in that direction.

That continuity of progression is reflected in Wilcox's discussion of the continuous atonement. For example, he quotes Elder Bruce C. Hafen: The Savior's gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to 'after' all we can do. We may receive His grace before, during, and after the time when we expend our own efforts." Like another he mentions, I have often felt that the Savior will only help me after all I can do, and yet I know full well that rarely, if ever, have I really done all I could do. The problem is, I need Him now, not at some hypothetical future time when I have done everything possible on my own. Wilcox points out that Satan tempted Christ with the word "if," but that his attacks on us more often begin with the words "if only." Those words, and the discouragement that all too often follows them, can quickly drive the Spirit away. No matter how meager our offering, perhaps it is acceptable to God because (as Elder Gerald N. Lund wrote) "He is more concerned with the offerer than the offering." Or, as we are taught in Hebrews 12:2, we shouldn't give up, God isn't finished with us yet, for He is the "finisher of our faith."

The Continuous Atonement is comforting and thoughtful, and I recommend it.

This book is so powerful. It gives a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding on the Atonement and how we can apply it in our everyday lives. I enjoyed the entire book and learned so much. It is one that you can read over and over again and still keep learning. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to strengthen their relationship with the Savior. This book changed my life. I am a better person for the things that I learned from it and have been able to apply in my own personal life.