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War of the Worlds: How to Avoid Leading a Double Life
War of the Worlds: How to Avoid Leading a Double Life
War of the Worlds: How to Avoid Leading a Double Life
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War of the Worlds: How to Avoid Leading a Double Life

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Adrian Plass considers the pull of the spirit and of the flesh and how this often leads us to live compartmentalised lives. We allow God only into certain bits and suffer embarrassment when our compromised private lives and shiny public lives collide.

War of the Worlds is about spiritual warfare, maturity, prayer and the fear of true commitment. It's a book that battles to reunite the secret world of what we are, with the public world of what we appear to be, in an outrageous and seriously funny advance into the no-man's-land of genuine Christian engagement. Adrian brings the Bible alive with rather unexpected soap opera characters; he introduces us to a God who is much more playful than we thought and asks questions such as:
- If doubt and insecurity are the elephants in the room, how do we deal with these huge creatures?
- How have we allowed so many herds of sacred cows to grow so large? True authenticity demands a major cull.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2011
ISBN9781780780153
War of the Worlds: How to Avoid Leading a Double Life
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Adrian Plass

Adrian Plass is one of today's most significant and successful Christian authors, and he has written over thirty books, including his latest, Looking Good Being Bad - the Subtle Art of Churchmanship. Known for his ability to evoke both tears and laughter for a purpose, Plass has been reaching the hearts of thousands for over fifteen years. He lives in Sussex, England with his wife, Bridget, and continues to be a cricket fanatic

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    I don't think Adrian Plass could write a bad book... but I didn't think this wasn't one of his best. The theme is that as Christians we tend to compartmentalise our lives, so that our inner selves can sometimes be at war against the nice face we present to our friends. However authenticity is so important to me that I don't think I've really experienced that much myself. At least, not recently.

    There are chapters with comments about prayer, weakness, fire, sacred cows and more, with interesting anecdotes, a couple of skits and several poems. I very much enjoyed all the anecdotes, and most of the general thoughts, but am not a huge fan of poetry and didn't really understand most of it.

    I was almost thinking that I would have to be honest and award this only three stars, despite it being by one of my all-time favourite writers... then I read the last chapter. It's absolutely brilliant. Just a story - so cleverly written that I didn't see the ending coming, and then had to go back to the start to see where all the clues were. Wonderful, and that in itself made me glad I had bought the book. If I don't remember anything else from this, I will remember the story 'A Place to Be'.

    Recommended to anyone finding that they are struggling with inner tensions and unable to be authentically themselves. And if you borrow it, read the last chapter if nothing else. Just don't be tempted to see how it ends before you get there!

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