WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
By Martin Salter
10Publishing. 47 pages. £2.99
ISBN 978 1 909 611 535
This booklet seeks to open minds to a consideration of the gospel and it is gentle, stimulating and above all short – a great virtue these days.
Martin Salter, who is part of the leadership at Grace Community Church Bedford, tackles six fundamental questions about life which everyone asks at some stage: Where have we come from?; Where are we going?; What are we here for?; What’s wrong?; What’s the solution? and How do we know? These are well chosen. It is contemporary in style with a good selection of pertinent quotations from Leo Tolstoy to Siri on your iPhone! The chapters quietly nudge readers in a Christian direction. It’s a great booklet to give away.
In the last chapter Martin comes clean about his own position and explains the gospel by moving deftly through all the questions again with the Bible’s answer for each. This is fairly low key. But on the other hand quite a few enquirers we meet are intrigued about Christian faith but are not ready to be blasted by a full-blooded, no holds barred, gospel presentation. The low-key approach could be just right for them.
