Why do we have have Christian books? This is a question that I have been dwelling on a lot lately. Perhaps before I say more it will be helpful for me to define what I mean by "Christian book". By this I mean popular, pop-cutler Christian books with little substance and lots of rhetoric. These sort of books come out and dominate Christian book store shelves and are raved about in average church Bible studies.
I do not write this post to put down my Christian brothers and sisters who read these books. Rather, I write it to suggest (with a little help in style from pop-culture Christian books) that we move past milk to solid food (1 Cor 3:2). If you were to look up my reference to the previously sentence you might notice that I failed to correctly reference this verse. However, this is what many of our brothers and sisters do in their pop-culture books. We need to move past these books. Yes, many speak truth, but this truth is also found in Scripture. Instead of having "Bible" studies where we read books maybe we should have "book" studies where we study books of the Bible.
Many times these pop-culture books have positive things to say, but they do not move the church forward. These books often times speak of surface level issues that poke us in places that sometimes hurts, but many times they end up with a very similar message that we should have learned when we were in middle school. Lets move past our middle school Christianity towards adulthood and maturity in our faith.
-Chris
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