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The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith
by Ruth Chou Simons, Gretchen Saffles
2.5⭐️
This book had a lot of issues, especially in the first half of the book. I’m not going to list everything here cause it would take and be too long. But there were a couple of theologically unsound statements she made in the first half of the book.
That said the latter half of the book I feel like got better, there were not as much things wrong, and I heard more impactful truths in that part of the book.
I listened to this on audiobook and I personally found the narration very annoying. (So did all my family whom heard it on and off & told me).
This book is not the kind of book I normally pick up, it’s not the kind I would recommend, because it’s a fluff book. It’s a pep talk for ladies. It doesn’t go very deep at all. It gives you a bunch of basics that if your a Christian you really should already know if you’ve ever read your Bible, and if you don’t I think you should be more worried about that and go pick up your Bible over this book or others like it.
Do I think this book has things that could help people? Sure maybe. Especially the last 3 chapters has some good stuff in it. But there is a lot of problematic and just wrong stuff in the first half. The vibes it gave me was for people who didn’t know or were founded in a ton, like a newer knowledge level believer, and with the theologically wrong things in the first half, for a newer knowledge believer I think it is very dangerous.
So even if there’s some nuggets in here, I would not recommend this book. Sorry but just go pick up your Bible. If you really want to read a theological non fiction aside it then grab A.W Tozer, Charles Spurgeon or C.S. Lewis, not this flowery pep talk.
This book had a lot of issues, especially in the first half of the book. I’m not going to list everything here cause it would take and be too long. But there were a couple of theologically unsound statements she made in the first half of the book.
That said the latter half of the book I feel like got better, there were not as much things wrong, and I heard more impactful truths in that part of the book.
I listened to this on audiobook and I personally found the narration very annoying. (So did all my family whom heard it on and off & told me).
This book is not the kind of book I normally pick up, it’s not the kind I would recommend, because it’s a fluff book. It’s a pep talk for ladies. It doesn’t go very deep at all. It gives you a bunch of basics that if your a Christian you really should already know if you’ve ever read your Bible, and if you don’t I think you should be more worried about that and go pick up your Bible over this book or others like it.
Do I think this book has things that could help people? Sure maybe. Especially the last 3 chapters has some good stuff in it. But there is a lot of problematic and just wrong stuff in the first half. The vibes it gave me was for people who didn’t know or were founded in a ton, like a newer knowledge level believer, and with the theologically wrong things in the first half, for a newer knowledge believer I think it is very dangerous.
So even if there’s some nuggets in here, I would not recommend this book. Sorry but just go pick up your Bible. If you really want to read a theological non fiction aside it then grab A.W Tozer, Charles Spurgeon or C.S. Lewis, not this flowery pep talk.