Christian Liberty: Living for God in a Changing Culture

By Rex M. Rogers

Rogers writes that until Christians start granting liberty to their fellow believers on what are essentially nonmoral matters, they will never overcome internal bickering, let alone witness to nonbelievers. Christian Liberty guides readers toward using a sound Christian worldview to do the true work of God.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801064600
• ISBN13: 9780801064609
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A good intro on Christian liberty and worldview

This was an enjoyable book and was right-on in its explanation of the need for a Christian worldview. It did a decent job of explaining Christian liberty and how it applies to social change and the Christian. A more in-depth and clear treatment of biblical passages would have been helpful, though. In my reading the book, though, I found myself following Rogers as he talked about social change and its relation to Christian liberty, but then losing him a bit as the book took a turn and began talking at great length about developing a Christian worldview. And then it mainly focused on what NOT to do in developing that worldview, rather than prescribing a plan or describing what a Christian worldview would look like. You may say this is a strength or a weakness depending on how much you think the reader needs to be lead or just solve things by themselves. I, for one, felt like there was not enough of an emphasis on what Scripture says our worldview should be. Maybe Rogers is the kind of person that thinks most people should figure this out on their own. But I think, in some ways, people bought a book so they could have someone teach them. Role modeling a Christian worldview may do far more than just very general discussion on the topic. Maybe his purpose was to make an adjunct textbook for Cornerstone University-one more open-ended for college students? Either way, more actual Bible content would have been helpful in prescribing a Christian worldview. Overall I think the book suffered from its sprawl. It covers a lot of topics very quickly and sometimes superficially. I would have appreciated a book more focused on fewer topics-say, how Christian liberty relates to social change. Rogers started talking about that but, I think, got somewhat off-track. If a Christian worldview is foundational to thinking correctly about social change (it is), then assume it and continue the book in-depth. But-even if we need to have a Christian worldview on every topic-there shouldn't be a need to explain the necessity of a Christian worldview in each book on every topic. I don't want to make my review sound negative-it's not. I'm giving the book 4 of 5 stars. But I wanted to explain why I couldn't give it 5.

This is a book for "thinking" Christians

Wouldn't it be amazing if we as 21st century Christians truly understood the changing culture we live in and knew how we, as godly people, ought to react and relate to it? Social change is viewed by most Christians as a threat, rather than a fresh level of opportunity to impact our culture for Christ.In his book, "Christian Liberty," Dr. Rex Rogers offers nine principles for developing a God-honoring life in rapidly changing times. Writing for "thinking" Christians, Rogers reminds us that God created both faith and reason, and that biblical Christianity is a logical faith.Stating that Christian liberty may be the least understood and least practiced doctrine in the Bible, Rogers suggests that it should be "a distinctive component of a fully developed Christian worldview," and that "Spiritual discernment is the link between knowledge of the Word of God and the application of this knowledge to our cultural experience."I agree with Rogers when he suggests that many of us grew up in churches where we were expected to adhere to a set of extra-biblical rules or traditions and to occasionally "turn off our minds and toe the line," when in actuality, God created both faith and reason, and He expects us to make use of our minds regarding how we exercise our faith. Pick up a copy of "Christian Liberty" and be challenged to develop your own biblical, Christian worldview, and then dare to live out your faith in a manner that influences others for Christ.