Raised with Christ by Adrian Warnock

Adrian Warnock kindly sent me an advance copy of his book Raised with Christ. Sadly while I have read much of the book I have not been able to find time write up my thoughts.

However, I have been reading a very thorough review by Peter Kirk. It spans 8 parts and is extremely good. I thoroughly recommend the review which makes many of the points I would have raised and lots more besides: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and finally Part 8.

Peter concludes with the following:

I nearly wrote that I was pleasantly surprised by “Raised with Christ”. I was certainly pleased by it. But I wasn’t really surprised to find that Adrian could put aside the sometimes polemical tone he uses on his “blog” and write something as well argued and positive as this book. As I would expect it is not at a high academic level, and this occasionally comes through in minor weaknesses in the argument. But this ensures that the book is accessible to ordinary people with a reasonable education.

The only significant reservations I have are really because, as an Arminian charismatic suspicious of much “Reformed” evangelicalism, I do not fit into Adrian’s target audience. That is why I found somewhat grating the way in which he keeps quoting Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones, and Piper, as well as older Puritans. But I know that for Adrian’s intended audience of Reformed readers, “cessationist” as well as charismatic, these are the traditionally accepted authorities, and so it is important for Adrian’s case to show that these preachers and writers support it.

I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone whose background is “Reformed” or conservative evangelical and whose faith seems to be somewhat doctrine-centred and dry. In fact I can think of people I might like to give it to. I would think that anyone like that who read this book would find it acceptable – and if they then took its message to heart their faith would be transformed. I hope and pray that God uses the book in this way to revitalise many Christian lives.

Comments

[Peter Kirk]

Thanks for the link and quote, and for the endorsement of my review, which I take as also an endorsement (at least with the qualifications I make) of the book.

[Dave]

Peter,

Yes you are right in that understanding.