Christianity With Power helps us recognize that our cultural inhibits us from experiencing and living the wholeness of our faith. Dr. Kraft helps the reader to comprehend our Western worldview and how it affects our view of the bible.

It is interesting (and discouraging) to note that even though we are Christians, our basic assumptions are usually more like those of the non-Christian Westerners around us than we like to admit. We have, as Christians, made certain modifications. But even though there is often a wide discrepancy between the teachings of Scripture and the common Western assumptions...we often find ourselves more Western than scriptural (p 26)

Dr. Kraft gives us many examples of our Western worldview, which is important to understa

In Christianity with Power, Dr.Kraft does a remarkable job of defining and explaining terminology that can be difficult to comprehend. He covers terms in chapter two, which is explaining reality and how we analysis what we perceive. An illustration of one of the significant terms Dr. Kraft explains is "The two-realities Position."

Yet Westerns tend to be much more hesitant when it comes to change in religious ideas or allegiances. The feeling seems to be that since so much change is going on in nearly every other area of life, we should keep change in religious traditions to a minimum...We need to commit ourselves to God and his purpose. But an unthinking, culturally inculcated commitment to mere religious traditions is shown over and over again in the Bible to keep people form God'

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