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This is my review of God In The Wasteland by David F. Wells The picture given in the book is very gloomy and sad. It is stated that in the modern context God is believed but he is not of much consequence to those who believe. In Psychology an ordinary solution to some kind of a disorder is to analyze and pinpoint the core of the problem that is there. Once a patient knows what exactly is wrong with him the healing process starts inevitably, that is, of course, with the patient's willingness to get well. And so the author have attempted to understand how modernity rearranges the realy of God such that he comes to rest inconsequentially upon the church. A powerful remedy suggested is this: the church needs to rediscover God's transcendence and to turn from its abuse of God's immanence. In order to regain spiritual authenticity, to reflect an integral and undiminished confidence in the power of God's Word the church has to raise a new generation of leaders who exemplify the hope for its future and who will devote themselves to seeing it realized. The church is also to learn how to detect worldliness and make a clear decision to be weaned from it. But foremost, the church must get sober and take a good look upon the reality without fear of it and also with the sense of readiness to take full responsibility. This unwillingness to take responsibility is way too strong among Evangelicals at this point and it leads to "grace without works whatsoever." Maybe the book is too bleak and some might get offended but it is the truth that I can see in this book, and we need to learn how to take the naked truth in and face it. There is simply no other way, for if we don't we just deceive ourselves. There is no place for fear either. Sin is much greater and worse than we can imagine it. That is to say that we can hardly overestimate it. We tend to underestimate it, though. What about me personally? I pray to God that he give me a clear and sober outlook on life, the way it is really. I pray that He grant me the honor to become that kind of a person who will exemplify the hope for the church's future and who will devote himself to seeing it realized. Modernity has been gradually and steadily consuming the church slowly infiltrating the earthly things substituting the thruth by lies, good by evil. Discernment is the road to healing. The heart of the ability to discern right from wrong in the actual circumstances of life is the rich flowering that God intends from the interactions of the truth of his Word, reflection on it, and the moral character that grows out of it. The point is that there is no alternative. It is true indeed when David Wells says that to start in the right place is to start with God. The church is called by Him, constituted my Him, empowered by Him, and cleansed by Him. It is therefore with God that we must begin thinking about the church's reformation today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This map is symbolic as we are trying to map our life routes in the best way we know. If you like to think this way... The map is real and the life is, but our routing is not, oh, why so many a time... | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dying is an alien concept. Life is what we like. Not just life. A quality life. But what is it? Or is it what it should be? | �
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