THINGS WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON
By Pete Jackson
10Publishing. 151 pages. £3.99
ISBN 978 1 914 966 163
This little book takes as its starting point 12 aspects of the human condition and injects the gospel into them.
It is designed to be given to people for whom propositional truth seems irrelevant. The topics include obvious ones like desire, anxiety, and addiction, but also less obvious ones like being a refugee (we are all deliberate refugees from God’s presence).
Challenge is also given, for example in the chapter on our delusion that we can live without God. Jackson uses some very arresting images to support his points. I particularly liked the one that describes even the most comfortable of lifestyles as merely a nice arrangement of tarpaulin and therefore temporary.
Each chapter ends with questions for discussion or reflection, and so it could be used in a group as well as with individuals. Aimed at non-Christians, it would also benefit Christians looking to apply the gospel to the issues of life.
At the end it encourages people to connect with a church and gives various useful websites (Gospel Coalition, Acts 29, among others).
