What’s keeping you from being
all-in when it comes to following King Jesus?
If I had to pick one thing, it would be difficult, because there are for
me, and I imagine most of us, several things that get in the way of total
obedience. Christine Hoover in With All Your Heart: Living Joyfully through
Allegiance to King Jesus (BakerBooks, 2020) runs us through some of the
issues that she faces in her own life. They include things like anxiety. Image,
control and escape, along with a few others.
People like
to think they have it together; many churches are full of people who assume
that they’re good Christians—that they follow Jesus whole-heartedly. But then
something happens and they begin to doubt themselves and their intentions. Sometimes that doubt is a good thing because it
forces us to reassess where we really are in relationship to Jesus.
And then
we can look at those things that stand between us and Jesus. But there’s hope.
Hoover includes a part III: An Unshakeable Kingdom. And as she wraps up the
book, she reminds us that the Kingdom doesn’t rely on us: Jesus has already got
it covered.
There
is some good information here, and in many ways the various chapters covering
the ‘false kings’ hit on things that I might cover with people struggling with substance
abuse issues.
Having
said that, I wasn’t overly impressed with the writing style. I kept trying to
find the ‘living joyfully’ included in the sub-title, and for me, it just wasn’t
there.
As a
member of the publisher’s blogger’s program I received a copy of this book in exchange
for my honest opinion about the book.
3/5
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