For what it's worth

Discipleship now

FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
By Simon Guillebaud
Monarch Books. 220 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 85424 760 3

This is a strident challenge to full-on, cross-carrying, risk-taking, adventurous living for Christ from a young evangelist based in Burundi.

Subtitled ‘A call to no holds barred discipleship’, it is in the same mould as the books of George Verwer and William MacDonald’s True Discipleship. It is full of punchy and pertinent illustrations which grip the heart. The chapters are divided into three sections, How can I live radically? Why live radically?, and What will radical living look like?

Knowing a trouble torn African country and its needs very well, the author not only helps us face the possibility of dying for Christ, but also punctures the complacency of much evangelicalism in the West. Such challenges are sometimes more abrasive than helpful, but this book is written with great wisdom and with a warm heart. Don’t miss it!

John Benton

© Evangelicals Now - October 2006
Please consider supporting this ministry by subscribing.

• Request Free Sample

Main Articles

• Christ's window cleaners
• The Commentary
  How to pray for Britain
• How to become a colour-blind Christian
• Christian single parents
  People with a special calling, part 1
• Songsmith
  Tom King interviews contemporary hymn writer Stuart Townend
• Crucial questions for evangelicals
  An interview with John Stott
• Cezanne's struggle
  Paul Wells asks what the great artist was trying to do
• Monthly youth leaders column
  Keeping a balance
• Letter from America
  The new wave?
• The Music Exchange
  Christ and the metal scene
• Watching the web
• 'Anything, anywhere'
  Interview with Simon Guillebaud

Other articles

• Seven brides for seven brothers
• Snakes on a plane
• The second Whitefield - Rowland Hill, the preacher
• Luther: rebel, genius, liberator (DVD)
• From Homer to Harry Potter - A handbook on myth and fantasy - part 2
• Shelf Life - Looking at secular books
• Why good arguments often fail - Making a more persuasive case for Christ
• For what it's worth
• Feminine appeal
• Saddam's secrets
• A window into art
• Always reforming - Exploration in Systematic Theology
• Spooked - Talking about the supernatural
• Mark Schultz live (CD/DVD)
• Knowing the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament
• Where is God in a messed-up world
• Church on the edge
• Churches' handbook - Practical information for churches
• Contextualisation in the New Testament - Patterns for theology and mission
• Is the Reformation over? - An evangelical assessment of Roman Catholicism
• Evangelistic Calvinism - Why the doctrines of grace are Good News
• Letters to Lydia, 'beloved Persis'
• The God-centred life - Insights from Jonathan Edwards for today
• God's power to save
• The secret key to heaven