the book of james with francis chan session 2

(For a particularly compelling article on this same assessment, I suggest A.W. And I would whole-heartedly agree with this assessment. To put it clearly, many Christians in today's church have shallow Christian lives because they have a narrow, small, inaccurate view of God. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it is because we have an inaccurate view of God' (p. 'The core problem isn't the fact that we're lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The reason for this I think Chan presents very well in his preface: 'I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete. Now commendably, Chan recognizes a problem in the church where many Christians seem to have a very shallow Christian life.

But as a reviewer I would caution the reader to beware of this fact and to be on the lookout for a multitude of false dichotomies (either this, or that, when it very well could be both this and that, or something else entirely, etc.). The inconsistency abounds so greatly throughout the book that it would be difficult to list all the examples. 83-84ff), only later to assume again that his reader is a Christian and also a lukewarm believer (p. 22), only to say later that 'lukewarm' Christians aren't even Christians at all (pp.

Frankly, I'm not sure he himself is quite sure at any given point which one he's trying to do.įor instance, he says on the one hand, we're basically all lukewarm, halfhearted, stagnant Christians (p. And you're never sure which of those actions he's trying to do. Throughout the book Chan seems very confused and inconsistent in his approach to either stir up the idle Christian or convert the non-Christian.

Chan offers a mixed view of saying the Christian life is lived out of love and not out of fear-and-guilt, but then mainly tries through fear-and-guilt to persuade his readers to live the Christian life. This book is one of the most confusing I've ever read about the Christian life.

The book of james with francis chan session 2