Reviews for Leading Kids to Jesus: How to Have One-on-One Conversations about Faith

The average rating for Leading Kids to Jesus: How to Have One-on-One Conversations about Faith based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-12 00:00:00 Kathleen Baker I loved this book, I sit in my kids room with them as they fall asleep each night and listen to an audiobook with earbuds in my ears until they fall asleep. I need to buy this book it has so much good stuff in it that I need to be able to sit with it for awhile, go back to pieces, make notes, dig into ideas. I actually want to go back and do all the questions and prompts (which I admit is rare for me). The two chapters on introducing babies and toddlers to Jesus especially filled my heart, and gave me so many tools, ideas and new vocabulary to make my ministry more fruitful. Bonus that this book was available on Hoopla through my public library, it's only 4 1/2 hours to listen to completion.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-20 00:00:00 Russell Palatianos I agree with what this book is arguing, but I found the way it argued it was difficult. The chief argument of the books is that the NT uses a rich array of metaphors and motifs from the OT to portray the event of the cross, not just one "atonement theory". I think this is the most accurate way to understand the NT's passages. However, this argument is carried out in three very fast moving chapters that often feels quite choppy and in haste. The rest of the book looks at the history of atonement and ways of creatively communicating the atonement today. Those were good chapters, but they rest on the central argument that the motifs of the NT theologies warrant the liberty to use new metaphors to communicate the cross intelligibly as the Apostles did in the NT. Again, while I agree with the argument of the book, it really needed to slow down on the discussion of NT passages and present a more comprehensive treatment of that first before moving on to the rest.