TWENTY-FOUR
Integrating faith and real life
By Krish Kandiah
Authentic Media. 176 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978-1-85078-802-7
This book sets out to challenge Christians who, outside of church meetings and Christian activities, live as ‘practical atheists’. You don’t need to watch the TV series 24 to understand its contents. Krish Kandiah looks at getting up, commuting, work, shopping, cooking, family, fun, exercise and sleep, and asks how we can redeem each of these everyday activities to bring glory to God twenty-four hours a day.
Each chapter consists of a series of reflections on loosely-related Bible themes. So, the chapter on cooking includes, among other things, the Genesis account of the Garden of Eden, the Lord’s prayer, the Levitical sacrifices, the gospel accounts of Jesus eating with sinners, and a section on fasting.
On the plus side, the book is readable and does what it sets out to do. The Just a minute sections at the end of each chapter contain ideas for applying the teaching and a number of thought-provoking points.
