Reviews for Rescuing the 21st Century Teenager

The average rating for Rescuing the 21st Century Teenager based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-20 00:00:00 Thomas Hedley I would describe Michael Brown as a pentecostal Arminian Paul Washer. Thus, I utterly disagreed with the chapter on healing. He used the common charismatic argument that if God’s will that you’re sick then it would be sinful to seek healing, since you would be disobeying the will of God. Since cessasionists and charismatics that allow for the sovereignty of God in sickeness (myself) would go to the doctor if they were sick, then consistently they would have to believe it’s not God’s will for them to be sick. I see where he’s coming from but I beg to differ. Mainly because as a Calvinist, I have categories for defining what one might be meaning when ‘the will of God’ is mentioned. Because charismatics are typically Arminian, they don’t have room for a sovereign decree and apparently don’t see the weakness of this argument. As a Charasmatic Calvinist, what I mean when I say that it is the will of God that you are sick is that your sickness is a part of the sovereign decree of God, as he works all things according to the counsel of his will. I’m not saying that it’s God’s revealed or prescriptive will that you are sick. Since this is the only will of God an Arminian thinks God has, the Arminian charismatic hears the Calvinist affirming what I’ve denied. If God were to reveal that it was his prescriptive will for me to be sick (through a prophetic word or something), in that case, I would not seek medical treatment, since that would be disobedience. But Christians are not given access to the sovereign decree of God and are not held responsible for living according to it. Therefore, it could be God’s sovereign decree that I get sick, and then God’s sovereign decree that by means of medicine, I get healed. The seeking of medical help would not be a violation of the sovereign will of God, because it is impossible to go against it. He also discusses a lot of people who I really question the credibility of as though they are examples of godliness. I could be wrong about these people (Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake etc), but the people that seem to love these guys today are usually pretty heretical. But considering this is not a book on healing primarily, or why certain figures from the past are awesome, this book had a lot of good things to say and I did really enjoy and benefit from it.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-19 00:00:00 Steven Bennett Lit a fire in my heart. Even though this book doesn't provide all the answers, it was definitely worth it. I found the chapter on repentance worth the price of the book. The subjects include holiness, repentance, revival, healing, and the need to be honest with ourselves and God. This book was a call for CHANGE, and Brown does give some steps to take, but there are more questions than answers. God somehow always gives me something to balance out the last thing I read/listened to. This is what I needed to hear.