A review by josiahdegraaf
Becoming Worldly Saints: Can You Serve Jesus and Still Enjoy Your Life? by Michael E. Wittmer

2.0

The book had some good points, but was mediocre at other points, and made some dubious conclusions at others. He's trying to combine Kuyperianism with R2K theology, and the problem is that you can't really straddle the middle ground like that. As a result, there's much more tension in this framework than I'm comfortable with and it seems to make it way too easy for believers to justify ignoring different commands of Scripture because they can just pick and choose which framework of viewing Christ-and-culture works better for them.

I read this book two weeks ago, and was having trouble remembering much noteworthy when sitting down to review it tonight, which probably says something. It wasn't a bad book, but it didn't really impress me much, and the overall framework was speculative enough that I didn't get much out of it.

Rating: 2.5 Stars (Okay).