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 PrintableVersion The King is among usOn highTHE KING IS AMONG US This book is aimed at explaining why the ascension of Jesus matters and has been written because the author believes the subject has been woefully neglected. On the cover - which with weary inevitability pictures a cloud with some rays of sun bursting through - Graham Kendrick describes it as 'fascinating and accessible'. The author, Roy Lawrence, is probably right that the doctrine of the ascension has been neglected. I do, however, have a problem with the fact that he is so enthusiastic about making a thing of Ascension Day as an annual calendar event. This seems to me to be neither interesting nor desirable. To my mind, the observation of special days all too easily ends in devotion to the day itself rather than a focus on what it is meant to represent. But on the basis of Romans 14.5 we can agree to differ. Many people would also have questions about the author's theology of the Holy Spirit. He says a number of good things, and is amusingly self-deprecating about how his first experience of tongues-speaking left him with 'a silly-looking grin' for a few days. But he also suggests that the more we contemplate the ascension, the more, in some way, 'we find we are journeying to our own Pentecost'. I think I would probably disagree with this if I understood more clearly what he was trying to say! We would probably all learn some very helpful things reading this book - but probably also have some significant questions if reading it with discernment. David Baker,
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