It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while I can be caught
reading some Christian non-fiction, I always thought that if I was
going to be reading a book by
fairly prodigious Christian author Tim Keller, it would be
The Reason
for God. Instead, I ended up reading
Counterfeit Gods with a few of the
other ladies from my
church. It ended up being a very fortuitous time for me to be reading
such a book, and I liked it quite a lot. It's Sunday, so what better day to post a little post about a Christian book, amIright?
In
Counterfeit Gods, Tim
Keller explores the danger of
idols for Christians. Maybe at first thought when you hear the word
"idol" you're thinking of a statue or even an American Idol, but
Keller's book is about all the
good things in our lives that can go wrong when we desire them more than
we desire God. Keller's book breaks down the ways we can idolize everything from love to success to
money and power and
beyond. None of these things are necessarily bad in and of themselves, that is,
until we would give anything to have them.
This book is
about a very important topic,
especially for Christians who are worried they might be falling too much in
love with the things of this world. I loved how Keller reasons through
his topic, not
necessarily starting with point A and passing through points B and C to
get to D, rather choosing a main point and circling to get to it, if
that makes any sense at
all. It requires a little extra work on the part of the reader, but the
payoff, in my opinion, is enormous. Keller's chapters are packed with
examples of idolatry
from history both recent and distant as well as a biblical example
that manages to both illustrate his point about the idol in question
while successfully speaking
to the Bible's relevance through the ages as we pursue the same idols our Biblical forbears struggled with. This
is a great book for a
Christian who wants to grow closer to God by revealing and blotting out
the many things we chase after that can't satisfy us in the way only God
can.
(No disclaimer. This one's from my stacks.)
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