True Believers
Don't Ask Why |
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Don't
ask me for answers
I've only found one:
That a man leaves his darkness
When he follows the Son.
Larry Norman
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My favorite book to read
from in public speaking. In the style of Real Christians
Don't Dance, this book holds that Christianity is not a
set of answers to all our problems as much as it is a
journey through countless questions that deepen our
understanding of God and strengthen our ability to trust
him in spite of unanswered questions.
from
Chapter 4: When Answers Are Idols
Is the Bible a Book
of Answers? Is its primary purpose to provide us
with a manual for life? Do we approach the Bible
as if it were a sacred vault from which specific
answers can be mined--answers that will make our
lives successful?
Good things can
become idols. Even the actual graven images of
the Old Testament were not bad in and of
themselves. Some were probably admirable works of
art. A thing becomes an idol when it is placed
before, or in the place of, the living God. The
idol can be anything--a piece of wood, the sun,
the Bible, a person, or a system of answers that
explains reality sufficiently for one's own
experiences.
To come to God
seeking anything but himself is to come with
insufficient need. A person merely seeking
answers to life's questions is not asking enough.
And when someone else provides the answers to
those questions, he may--intentionally or not--be
doing away with another's need for God. Subtle,
these things we place as other Gods before HIm. |
for whom
Divided into three sections: "Ask,"
"Seek," and "Knock," this book is
good for seekers and those Christians who have felt that
the answers they have been given by traditional or
contemporary Christianity are not sufficient to
incorporate their experiences with doubt, failure, and
some of the harder realities of life.
quotes
from reviews
"Fischer . . . make[s] an excellent case for
questioning God, and for a different sort of questioning
of our fellow human beings."
World, September 1989.
"Fischer
contends that many evangelicals have forgotten how to ask
questions and seek the answers. Caught up in Christian
jargon and habits, believers have not been confronted
with questions."
Bookstore Journal, September 1989.
"An
uncompromising and satisfying follow-up to the popular Real
Christians Don't Dance.
[It] is a similar challenge to action, prodding the
comfortable to discomfort by pointing out the shallowness
of our answer-oriented Christianity."
Charisma and Christian Life, February 1990.
"[Fischer]
contends that Christians should be asking
questions, but also should look beyond the questions and
worship the one who has the answers."
Moody Monthly, October 1989.
"The
best-selling author of Real Christians Don't
Dance, Fischer again raises the eyebrows of the
traditional thinking Christian with this
thought-provoking book. . . . Questioning God does not
show faithlessness, but actually puts us back on track
with Him. It shows our dependence."
Christian Retailing, October 1989.
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