The Safest Place on Earth
by Larry Crabb
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Author: Larry CrabbForeword: Eugene Peterson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-10
ISBN: 0849914566
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Book Review: A Dissapointing Read - The mystic is too mystic
Summary: 1 Stars
I realize that being the first person to criticize Larry Crabb I could be labeled unspiritual and certainly not valuing Christian Community. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am involved with a close knit group of believers in a thriving Christian community. I've studied the word for a few years now so I was familiar with some of Crabb's concepts especially community and its power to promote spiritual growth. Crabb's concept of "upper and lower" rooms have been more commonly referred to as eternal and temporal or God and Flesh. My biggest complaint is that I felt Crabb made these concepts a lot more difficult and out of reach on the ideal level than they needed to be. If I were a new believer reading this book I would be completely paranoid and develop spiritual paralysis. Crabb asserts that anytime a thought enters our mind about "am I hurt?" or "do I need to self protect?" that we are operating out of the lower room. In actuality those thoughts are merely a product of our fallen state and the only time we fall into sin would be if we focus and dwell on these things instead of what God is calling on us to do.
Crabb also asserts that there are no psychological problems only spiritual. I absolutely disagree with this from a clinical standpoint although some people certainly have spiritual issues mixed in.
Crabb also has no category for obeying the word if your heart is not behind it. This is something I can't understand because one way we trust God is to follow Him when sometimes we don't understand why. Crabb also complained that questions such as "What does the Bible say I should do?" and "How can I love my husband well?" are managerial (legalistic). I completely disagree. I think these are great questions a growing Christian could be asking.
For the sake of brevity I'll save my other complaints and just say that I do think Crabb had good intent and wanted to persuade against legalism and encourage us to focus on the eternal rather than temporal. However, I think he got so caught up in his "mysticism" as he calls it that his writing was obscure and not culturally relevant.
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