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Doing the right thing

10 issues on which Christians have to take a stand

Biblically patchy

DOING THE RIGHT THING
10 issues on which Christians have to take a stand
By Rob Frost
Monarch Books. 222 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-85424-838-1

The ten issues which this book explores are: the environment, the poor, a multicultural society, a sex-mad society, the media, a politically correct age, genetics, the unborn, death and society. The book is designed to stimulate Christians to think about the kind of world they want to live in — and to get involved to change things.

The issues are approached from a broadly evangelical perspective. The method is to provoke discussion. It is not a book which carefully weighs the issues but one in which the author offers his own, often passionate, thinking. The discussion questions at the end of each chapter are more than the usual gesture. Specific and penetrating questions are outlined — a useful stimulus for group discussion. The writing is enlivened by the author’s personal experiences and every reader will recognise the contemporary significance of the issues he addresses and their importance for Christians.

The main weakness of the book is in its failure adequately to define the Christian gospel. Occasionally it appears to be more of a social than a spiritual programme (albeit with cutting edge social implications). Clear biblical support for the views expressed is patchy. The chapters on genetics, on abortion and euthanasia are stronger on this front than the chapter on the environment, for example.

However, this book is intended to provoke a reaction in areas that require urgent action from Christians. We need to be getting involved, to be salt and light in the unsettling world in which we find ourselves: and this book can be commended for its call for us to do that.

Paul Watts,
pastor, Lower Ford Street Baptist Church, Coventry