Daniel Strange, Making Faith Magnetic

 

Daniel Strange, Making Faith Magnetic: Five Hidden Themes Our Culture Can’t Stop Talking About… and How to Connect Them to Christ (The Good Book Company, 2021)

174pp

 

I imagine most of us feel we could use some help with our evangelism. A quick look at this book suggests that it might also help us to love Christ more fully and thoughtfully. It’s not so much a book of tips on how to share the gospel as a framework (or scaffolding) to help us connect our faith and our friends.

 

Strange argues that all people long for totality (connection to some meaningful big story), a norm (a way to live), deliverance (a way out, something that will fix things), destiny (control) and a higher power (something beyond, transcendence). Subsequent chapters then seek to show how Christ is the proper end of the search for all these things. Christ fulfils our God-given longing and subverts the false gods we hope will satisfy us.

 

A brief appendix suggests how the preacher might make use of this to speak more magnetically.

 

A fuller review to follow (perhaps in The Global Anglican) in due course when I have, hopefully, you know, read the book.

 

This book is clearly related to Dan’s earlier work: Plugged In (which I discussed here: https://marclloyd.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-brief-review-daniel-strange-plugged-in.html)