Shaking It Up

When Bible Study Fellowship ended for the summer last May, several people in our small group decided to start a book club.  At first we thought we would just have it during the summer, stopping when BSF started in the fall.  However, we found that we needed to allow a couple of months per book, so we have been reading/meeting to discuss about every 2-3 months.  

One of the first books we read is on my all-time favorite list:  Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee.  This month we met to discuss David Platt's book, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream."  

To a person we found it extremely convicting, but NO, we're not all selling everything we have to become missionaries in the Himalayas.  We did agree, however, that we need to begin to "act that way wherever we live."  The quote in the photo above came after this paragraph in Chapter 2:

Fundamentally, the gospel is the revelation of who God is, who we are and how we can be reconciled to him. Yet in the American dream, where self reigns as king (or queen), we have a dangerous tenency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

If you've never read the book, I encourage you to read it.  It will shake up the way you look at the gospel, your faith and the church.  Afterall, "shaking it up" is good for us.