WHY I AM A CHRISTIAN
By Kent Philpott
Evangelical Press. 127 pages. £7.95
ISBN 0 85234 501 1
Kent Philpott is a pastor of a church in California, where he has a prison ministry and is involved in coaching a baseball team. After 30 years in the ministry, he came to a completely God-centred view of life. This book is a refreshing expression of biblical truths through his own personal experiences.
The first chapter is a long one. Here the author describes why he is a Christian. All subsequent chapters are concise and deal with problems and questions that we all face today. Some of the subjects dealt with include how sin is not accurately diagnosed in people's lives, the fact that hell cannot be ignored and should space exploration really affect our faith. I liked the chapter entitled 'The big gamble'. In a lottery society, people are spending money where the chances of winning are stacked highly against them and the challenge of this chapter is to ask whether you want to gamble your life on the premise that death is final.
