Author Andy Angel
Publisher Cascade Books £12.99
Format pbk
ISBN 9781532644924 2019
Subtitled ‘Rediscovering the Teaching Ministry of Jesus’, this little book is intended for all Christians. Andy Angel’s basis for writing the book is his belief that Christians are too ready to replace Jesus’s teaching on judgment with a doctrine of grace. So, depending to what extent you have bought into the teaching that ‘Jesus loves us and saves us and that’s pretty much all there is to it’, this book will persuade you, or confirm for you, what Jesus actually taught about judgment. For those needing persuasion, the author is very thorough and addresses all the texts (45 in total) in Matthew’s Gospel where Jesus speaks of judgment in order to support his central point that Jesus (and Paul) were sure that God gave us grace but also would hold us accountable for our wrongdoings. For those who need only confirmation of this, there is a chapter devoted to how we might hold these two things together in our lives and, for all persuasions, encouragement not to edit out those parts of Scripture that make us fearful of God’s judgment. Jesus has promised to prepare us for that event, and we need only to accept its inevitability to be able to take advantage of his promise.
DAVID GILLIES
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