Tuesday, September 8, 2015

In His Steps, by Charles Sheldon—Review

What would Jesus do...
...if He lived in 1896?
...if He lived in a city rampant with squalor and drunkenness?
...if He was the editor of a newspaper?
...if He had a million dollars?
What would Jesus do?
When Reverend Henry Maxwell challenges his church to spend a whole year following in Jesus's steps, this is the question he asks them to consider. Those who take the challenge experience drastic changes in their way of life, and these changes soon begin to overflow into their community.
With a premise like that, how could a book go wrong?
Well, for a number of reasons I was not especially keen on this story, unlike most of the books I've reviewed on this blog...read more about In His Steps at A Well Cultivated Mind.

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