A Good Book is Hard to Find
I went to the Family Christian Bookstore today at lunch to find a book for a friend. When I was perusing the titles and authors to find the book I wanted, I was utterly dismayed at the selection of books. I felt like I was in the self-help section of a Borders. So many feel-good titles, or “How to get God to do what you want.” (of course worded in a “Christianized” way). There are also many books that are secular psychology wrapped with a Christian cover. The books’ content may sound good or even ‘Biblical’ but the essense is based on secular psychology not the Bible. They had whole shelves with “How to lose weight” and books packed with pop psychology, or the Prosperity Gospel, but none of Bill Hybels’ books (which was what I was looking for). They had more John Eldridge (author of Wild at Heart and Captivating, who is a Christian Integrationist not Biblical Counselor) books than all of C.S. Lewis’s works combined. The more I study Biblical Counseling, the more I see the footholds Satan’s taking in the thoughts and minds of Christians making them “dark and confused” (Ro 1:21 NLT). We need to take back our bookstores, our libraries, and our minds before we can no longer find the wolves in sheep’s clothing (Mt. 7:15).