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My heart's cry - longing for more of JesusHow do we hear the Shepherd?MY HEART'S CRY I was delighted to be given the opportunity to review this book and opened it with great anticipation. What could be more important than knowing more of the Lord Jesus, entering more fully into the fellowship of his sufferings, experiencing more of his comfort in sorrow and his concern for the lost? Anne Graham Lotz takes us sensitively and passionately through the night before Jesus died, as she probes his love for his disciples and the recorded conversations that have so much to say to Christians today. It is well written and well illustrated and could be a book to be passed around a group of friends to encourage and stimulate faith in dark times. But there are dangers! The most worrying of these appears to be at a very fundamental level: the way in which God speaks to us. At one point the author says quite categorically: 'Make no mistake about it, his voice is God's Word, the Holy Bible'. This is encouraging! But a few pages later (p.16) the Bible is handled in a way that could make it mean anything one wanted it to mean. I was also concerned at her emphasis on 'hearing the Shepherd's voice' as well as understanding the text and then regarding what she has thus 'heard' as infallible. This is a vital area and the reader should be alerted to this. The book seemed to me to get better as it went on and with that caution in mind I would recommend it for its zeal and warmth. After all, we all surely are longing for 'more of Jesus'. Margaret Seccombe, © Evangelicals Now - February 2004 |