Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
by Jerry Bridges
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Author: Jerry BridgesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-21
ISBN: 1600061400
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: NavPress
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Book Review: confused but convicting
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a convicting book. The first 4 or 5 chapters are well done with a few exceptions (e.g., a sentence in the middle of pg. 28 that reads modalistic). Chapter 7 is, at the very least, interesting. At first I disagreed with Bridges' premise that ungodliness (as he defined it) is more basic than pride. Then he started to convince me. But I'm probably back to disagreeing.
The weakest chapters are chapters 8 and 9. They display all the confusion I've come to expect from a Calvinist. Like many Calvinists, Bridges reads as if he can't make up his mind whether bad (even evil) circumstances are allowed by God or caused by God. He clearly leans toward the latter. These chapters are filled with expressions about accepting all circumstances as coming from God. Weirdly, if Bridges' flight is delayed, he assumes God has some agenda. Nothing is coincidental or chance. While he urges us to be patient sitters when God delays a flight for some purpose established before the foundations of the world, Bridges doesn't tell the woman who is brutally raped to be content knowing that God "orchestrated" the event for some wonderful purpose. Please, dear Calvinist friends, it's simple: God lets people make choices that He doesn't like. That's why those choices anger Him; He has no part in them. Sovereignty doesn't mean that God has made all the choices (and, please, spare me the doubletalk about people making genuine choices that God chooses for them to choose). Sovereignty means that God knew those choices were going to be made, He could have stopped them if He chose to do so, and He can bring good out of remarkably bad choices and events. But He's not pulling all the strings. Nor can we prove that He started the tornado spinning. So let's humbly shut the heck up and not risk accusing Him. Bridges makes some careless statements that are biblically indefensible. But, again, his Calvinism compels him. ". . .[W]hatever befalls us is according to his purpose, and therefore must be right" according to Bridges. This nonsense is not only false but it creates more and worse problems than it attempts to solve. But, enough ranting.
Now the good. I've not yet read past chapter 16 but I will comment on what I have read. Even in light of the problems already mentioned above, this book has great value. It convicts me all over. Written in simple terms for anyone to grasp, the reader cannot escape a confrontation with the subtle sins he tolerates in himself (e.g., pride, impatience, anger). I personally like an in-your-face style. But that's not how Bridges confronts the reader's sin. He writes humbly, as an obviously concerned brother. I've gained from this book and will probably reread it in the future.
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