A Read Book - Guidance and the Voice of God - Phillip Jensen

This book is classic Philip (the mostly good, the slightly frustrating, and the always parochial!).

It started life as a sermon series for uni students and shows it's heritage in that it was always going to be finite in scope. There is much taught clearly in the book - as you would expect - but being a sermon series not always at the depth that some would hope for.

I think the image of the God given compass in life is an excellent way of starting to address the challenges of decision making in life.

But I still have a nagging suspicion that in the attempt to stand against a 'charismatic' approach of decision making - that can best be described as emotionalism - this book's approach falls more into the category of 'Evangelical Rationalism'.

I find Graham Cole's approach in 'he who gives life' a more convincing and more mainstream position to the role of the Spirit in the life of the Christian today.....

A worth while read and an important corrective to a lot of rubbish out there on the issue of guidance.

I'd give it about a 7/10