Tim Chester on the gap between talking about a relationship with God and actually enjoying one - and how the Christian life stops feeling like a dutiful slog. Read more.
Christians talk a lot about having a relationship with God, but what exactly does it mean to have a relationship with someone we cannot see? We talk a lot about joy, and yet for many the Christian life feels like a dutiful slog. We talk about knowing God, and find it easier to know more about God than to know God more.
Tim Chester writes for anyone those sentences describe. The book works through ordinary experience - pleasure, hardship, work, failure - and shows where the Father, the Son and the Spirit are actually to be met in each, so that a relationship with the living God becomes something felt rather than merely affirmed. Practical, and structured around everyday situations rather than abstractions.
