Global Rating: 3.00 from 4 reviews.
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Mediocre at best (2/5) | Mar 26, 2009 | Anonymous | |
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Disappointing (2/5) | Mar 19, 2009 | bthompsonrn | Longview WA US |
| Up until now, everything that I have read from Scroll Publishing has been very refreshing and faith-building, but this book was a disappointment. I found that overall, the stories of the believers in the book lacked even the most basic understanding of the Bible and the gospel. Their faith seemed to be based on feeling rather than knowledge, and many had glaring doctrinal errors. I found this book to be mediocre at best. | ||||
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Inspiring but flawed (5/5) | Feb 26, 2009 | Another Pilgrim | |
| Mostly very inspiring accounts of Spirit-inspired Kingdom movements in Russia over the last few centuries. My only problem with it is that the authors appear to treat Leo Tolstoy as a true Christian. He loved Jesus' teachings and faithfully passed them on, but he denied the supernatural facts of the Bible and his version of the Kingdom of God was not a peculiar people called out of the world but the world itself transformed by Jesus' teachings. Fallen humanity is not capable of this transformation and efforts to bring it about can only be a tragic failure. This is the Social Gospel, not the gospel of Christ. To treat Tolstoy as a believer is also to blur the standard for recognizing a believer. However, there are many inspiring stories of true Christianity in the book otherwise. | ||||
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The Russians' Secret (3/5) | Feb 14, 2009 | a Christian pilgrim | |
| Very interesting account of Kingdom Christianity in old Russia. Well worth reading. | ||||