MAINTAINING THE DELICATE BALANCE IN CHRISTIAN LIVING
by Jay Adams
Timeless Texts, 115 pages, $9.95

Cults and aberrational teachers constantly get people off balance, keep them off balance, and then thrive on this lack of balance in the lives of their devotees. Jay Adams rightly observes that “the history of the church could almost be written in terms of imbalance.”

Maintaining the Delicate Balance in Christian Living is a helpful handbook showing that balanced thinking, balanced attitudes and balanced actions, which are Bible-based, are essential to Christian living and peace in the Christian life. Without these balances our life and nature is hopelessly “tilted toward sin.”

Adams also reconciles some very difficult spots in Scripture. Some of the areas he covers and balances out are:

• Making balanced change,
• Making balanced judgments,
• Balancing predestination and responsibility,
• Balancing resistance and retreat,
• Balancing faith and works,
• Balancing submission and authority,
• Balancing covering and counseling,
• Balancing sorrow and joy,
• Balancing the Law and the Gospel,
• Balancing the church and family, and much more.

Adams succeeds in his purpose: “It is my hope to observe the importance of proper balance in a number of specific areas, to point out some of the imbalances currently weakening the church, to describe the sorts of influences that tend to knock Christians off balance, and to suggest some of the ways in which to counter these. So far as I can tell, there has been a lack of interest in this subject that, consequently, has resulted in great confusion” (page viii).

This book is recommended, knowing it will help to keep you on track and balanced.

—GRF

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