Letters from a Skeptics Blog Post (J.W.)

Hi,

I am honored to post the first ever blog post on this book. Below I will input my thoughts and insights I gained from the book just for sharing. Please excuse my grammar :)


 First, I have to say that this is really an awesome and eye-opening book. I started reading after April, 5th of 2016 and ended today (April 6th of 2016).  This book serves as an excellent guide for our non-Christians friends or family members we have.

I don't want to make this blog post as an summary focus of each chapter since that will be pretty boring. I think it would be better if I picked one or two points I think is an idea worth sharing for Christians.

1. "Much of the materials in the Bible only begins to make sense after one's heart has been touched by the Lord" (152).

Why does this matters? well I think for me this is quite true as to how I view the Bible before I really converted to a real Chrisitan. Reading the stories and parables of Bible used to make me feel like reading something that has nothing to do with my life. It feels like if Jesus is just doing his own thing(like the phrase let you do you), and I would just keep on doing my own business. Oh, I don't know how I have to thank for how God has changed my life and in a way change the way I view the Bible.

2. "His(Author's father) response floored me. Sitting in his wheelchair, wearing diapers, unable to do anything but the most elementary tasks for himself, nearly totally blind and deaf, this once-malcontented man said in his stroke-impaired speech, 'Because I feel so blessed by God just to be here' " (235).

I think this is such an encouraging scene to watch as to how a gospel can change someone who as "once arrogant, intellectual giant" (234) to someone who trusted God so much as his son did. It really urges me to spread the gospel to my family members, especially my dad, who is still a seeker.

Anyways, I think this is good for our first blog post. I don't want to overwhelm you guys. And I certainly don't want you guys to regard this as a template to follow for the future posts. Being said, there is no words limit or citation or anything. Just feel free to share what is going on in your minds and I believe this will be a really encouraging to what you guys have to say about this book. I think by sharing, our class can also grow in light of his words as a whole through great books like this.


---J.W.