Book Review: Crucifying Morality by R.W. Glenn

I received a copy of this book free of charge from the publisher, Shepherd Press, for the purpose of an honest review.

This book was an excellent read. The purpose of the book was exploring gospel centeredness through the teaching of the beatitudes. I wish I knew what I read in this book earlier in my Christian walk. Christian life can be taught as a list of do's and don'ts but that is not the point of the gospel. When looking at a teaching like the beatitudes it is easy to desire to work at being them. They should not be taught this way. The author explains this fully chapter by chapter. Essentially Jesus did all that needed to be done and this is a picture of Christ-likeness. The beatitudes play out in our life as evidence of Christ in our life changing us. Not our effort but trusting His.

I highly recommend this book for all Christians. It is very tempting to want to live in a way that makes us feel worthy of the gospel by living a list of rules but that is not the point of Christianity. Instead of living that way we live and rest in the grace of what Christ has already done on our behalf. Accepting His perfect living as ours when we are in Him. As we realize this, God by His Spirit changes us little by little so we reflect the beatitudes more and more. It takes the pressure off of trying to perform for we can never be good enough. That is the beauty of Christianity. Christ knew this and died for us so we could be good enough hidden in Him. This book was freeing and reenforced those thoughts.

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