{"id":4526,"date":"2014-08-22T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2014-08-22T01:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T06:21:32","slug":"popular-christian-stuffgood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4526","title":{"rendered":"POPULAR CHRISTIAN STUFF=GOOD?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Years ago, I did a review of the selling sensation, The Prayer of<\/em> Jabez<\/em>.\u00a0 At the end of the review, I included these six principles for reading any book, especially the trendy stuff:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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  1. Does the book convey (explicitly or implicitly) that it is the \u201ckey\u201d to living the victorious Christian life?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Does the author present more of a formulaic approach to the Christian life rather than the need to grow in the \u201cgrace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ?\u201d\u00a0 (II Peter 3:18)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Does the book present a simplistic approach (read \u201ccookie cutter\u201d) to the Christian growth or does it value the wide variety of ways that God sanctifies His people?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Does the author tend to universalize or make normative his own experiences?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Does the author ask the reader to trust his interpretation of his experiences rather than backing those up with the word of God?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            1. Most importantly, does the book focus on the person and work of Christ?\u00a0 In other words, is it a Christ-centered approach to the Christian life or is it a mechanical, moralistic, and behavioral approach?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Years ago, I did a review of the selling sensation, The Prayer of Jabez.\u00a0 At the end of the review, I included these six principles for reading any book, especially the trendy stuff: Does the book convey (explicitly or implicitly) that it is the \u201ckey\u201d to living the victorious Christian life? Does the author present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,43,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-christianity","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}