{"id":337,"date":"2015-10-07T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:28:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:28:05","slug":"maintaining-the-delicate-balance-in-christian-living-a-short-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/maintaining-the-delicate-balance-in-christian-living-a-short-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining the Delicate Balance in Christian Living, A short review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maintaining the Delicate Balance in Christian Living<\/a><\/em>, Jay E. Adams<\/p>\n

From explaining biblical love and hate to balancing community and individual, this small book contains twenty-three useful chapters on a host of important issues found in every Christian\u2019s life.\u00a0 The premise of the book is that a healthy and mature life is based on the proper proportion\u2014or balance\u2014of various doctrines and practices of our faith.\u00a0 For instance, Adams points out that Christ calls believers to be shrewd as serpents and harmless as doves; an unbalanced life would follow one at the expense of the other (p. 2).\u00a0 Or some Christians expound a heartless truth while others extol a lying love\u2014neither is biblically balanced.\u00a0 Many believers today take one truth or practice and pit it against its biblically paired truth.<\/p>\n

There are two beneficial aspects to this book.\u00a0 It presents a simple model to help look at various problems in the Christian life.\u00a0 Many Scriptural doctrines are exaggerated in America and they affect how we live.\u00a0 True to the book\u2019s focus, at the conclusion Adams does admit there are issues which are not balanced but are in complete antithesis, such as the role of faith and works in justification.\u00a0 Also, the great numbers of topics covered are sure to give the reader plenty to chew on.\u00a0 Although the chapters are short, the thoughtful reader will find many valuable gems and engaging examples for thinking and acting in a balanced manner.<\/p>\n

This little book will be useful for brief readings to challenge our inconsistencies and imbalances or for Christian friends who need encouragement to accept all the doctrines of the bible instead of exalting one truth at the expense of the other.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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