On my reading journey

Thank goodness for other bloggers’ “Best of 2007″ posts!

Why, you ask?

“Cause I’ve started my reading and movie watching list for 2008, and so far, I’m enjoying every read.

I’ve started with a book by Philip Yancey: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church.

Yancey talks freely about his struggle to forgive the churches that shaped his young developing mind, and about the people who influenced his road to forgiveness and hope.

Yancey, speaking of G.K. Chesterton here:

“”The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult ; and left untried,”" he said. The real question is not “”Why is Christianity so bad when it claims to be so good?”" but rather “”Why are all human things so bad when they claim to be so good?” “Chesterton readily admitted that the church had badly failed the gospel. In fact, he said of one of the strongest arguments in favor of Christianity is the failure of Christians, who thereby prove what the Bible teaches about the fall and original sin. As the world goes wrong, it proves that the church is right in this basic doctrine.”