So many books
I visited the Christian bookstore and was amazed at the numbers of new Christian books. Hundreds of books stocking the shelves of the store. It made me wonder with so much to do for Christ how can we have so much time to write or even read these? God wrote a book. It is enough. The message seems simple enough, read, believe, do. Some how a new angle on the age old message seems silly when we aren’t really familuar with the age old message. So we take more time to learn what we already know and don’t do because we are learning more…Sounds a little crazy doesn’t it?
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Tim 3:16-17NIV
A few thoughts
The Bible makes us thoroughly equipped. Lacking nothing.
Read, believe, do.
The Gospel will change you and you go change the world.
In light of that, stop reading this and either get your Bible out and study to be equiped or go be Jesus to someone around you.
August 19, 2010
One response to So many books
I couldn’t agree with you more! Between books about the Bible and some people’s only knowledge of God deriving only from what they’ve heard their preachers say, it’s no wonder there are some really distorted ideas about Christianity from Christians themselves.
I do think some topic-specific books can be helpful, such as “The 5 Love Languages”,etc., but they should never be read if the person hasn’t first read the Bible.
Otherwise it’s like viewing stuff through a shattered iPhone, it’s a really distorted view and you can’t see the whole picture. (See Scott’s iPhone for reference)