Prepping yourself for Life to the Full
by | Posted on April 28th in Pastors thoughtsAt church on Sunday they gave an almighty plug for Life to the Full through an interview with Alex and Johann. One of the things Alex mentioned was that she was nervous on the first night of Life to the Full. Questions run around your head like:
What will my friends think? Will they think I’m a looney tune for believing this? Is this going to be any good? Will Sam totally mess up further opportunities to share the gospel by being a complete git? What will I say? Will I know what to say about Jesus? How will I argue for God and at the same time hear their concerns and respect their opinions?
These are all great questions. Some of the variables are completely out of your control but you can prepare yourself for Life to the Full and I think one of the best books I have read to that end is Naked God: The truth about God exposed by Martin Ayers.
Martin’s book is good one to read for 3 reasons.
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- It is very accessible. Lots of apologetic style books are very complicated, long winded and difficult to get your head around. Martin is comprehensive, clear and concise. A rare find. As John Dickson says: ”I was amazed, actually, how such a short book could feel so comprehensive.”
- It is comprehensive. Martin covers a lot of material. Whilst more reading could be done on all of the sections he writes about on the book in the Naked God we find a concise and clear distillation of many of those ideas.
- In his book he covers much of the same material that we look at in Life to the Full.
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Tags: Evangelism, Hunter Bible Church, Life to the Full, Matthias Media, Naked God
April 28th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Hey Sam; I can heartily second your recommendation of this book, great stuff (and written by an ex-lawyer!)
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
a third recommendation for the book - gave it to a guy at a sports injuries place i’ve been going to and his first comment was “i like the first line”, then 2 weeks later is very positive about how the book is written and how he addresses aetheism, which is kind of where my friend is coming from. he plans to read it all and was really thankful for the book, so from my point of view this is a great resource to read and give away. i haven’t had that positive a reaction to giving a christian book away for ages.
March 13th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Hi,
My husband and I have just been reading this book out loud, up to the the first 4 chapters of your book and thought we’d add our comments.
We both came to this book because, although we had been unable to articulate it as beautifully as Mr Myers has, we both do agree with the description of naturalism and the universe. We felt that pretty much everything written in the first four chapters is an accurate description of the universe and is in alignment with our own sense of logic.
At the end of Chapter 4 the concluding paragraph says:
“If an explanation [of the universe] fails….. don’t be depressed, look for the truth somewhere else”
Yes, our lives are depressing – we are searching desperately to find god because without god life is pretty much as meaningful as being a nail file. However just because something is unpleasant to our (nature and nurtured) mind doesn’t make it untrue or mean there is an alternative out there! We felt that the last paragraph of the chapter was a jump in logic that stumped us both.
Anyway, we’re going to continue reading but I thought perhaps we’d add our review of the book.
Overall it’s a very well written book – it covers some very complex ideas in a very concise way and followed a logical sequences.
Thanks Sam for passing it on, we’re enjoying reading (and challenging!) it.