The Life of a God-Made Man

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Summary: We Need More Men's Books Like This One!
Review: In The Life of A God-Made Man, Dr. Doriani has done a great service to the church. As he says, the book is a proposal and a protest:
"It protests all the books that reduce the life of a Christian man to a string of techniques and how-to lists. It proposes instead that the course of the Christian man is the course of his God....It also proposes that we focus on character over technique and law. God has renewed His sons and is remaking us in His image. Therefore, it is our heritage, our destiny, to become more like the Father and the Son. Men are most true to themselves when most like Christ." (p. 10 from the Preface).

In this book, grace is proclaimed and applied to men's relationship to God, their families, their jobs and even their recreation (His chapter on A Man and His Play is excellent!). Instead of being given ten steps to be a better man (Doriani calls this kind of thing "Nike Christianity"), which none of us can ever follow, Doriani shows where and how the power comes from to change, and how God has provided for His sons to conform more and more to the image of Christ.

The book is filled with solid biblical support & analysis and yet it is also filled with helpful illustrations and stories to make it a joy to read.

The book also has discussion questions at the end of each chapter and it would be a great book to use in small groups and men's groups. I plan to recommend it to a lot of the men in my church.

Rating:
Summary: We Need More Men's Books Like This One!
Review: In The Life of A God-Made Man, Dr. Doriani has done a great service to the church. As he says, the book is a proposal and a protest:
"It protests all the books that reduce the life of a Christian man to a string of techniques and how-to lists. It proposes instead that the course of the Christian man is the course of his God....It also proposes that we focus on character over technique and law. God has renewed His sons and is remaking us in His image. Therefore, it is our heritage, our destiny, to become more like the Father and the Son. Men are most true to themselves when most like Christ." (p. 10 from the Preface).

In this book, grace is proclaimed and applied to men's relationship to God, their families, their jobs and even their recreation (His chapter on A Man and His Play is excellent!). Instead of being given ten steps to be a better man (Doriani calls this kind of thing "Nike Christianity"), which none of us can ever follow, Doriani shows where and how the power comes from to change, and how God has provided for His sons to conform more and more to the image of Christ.

The book is filled with solid biblical support & analysis and yet it is also filled with helpful illustrations and stories to make it a joy to read.

The book also has discussion questions at the end of each chapter and it would be a great book to use in small groups and men's groups. I plan to recommend it to a lot of the men in my church.