Using Paul's radical letter to the Philippians as his road map, Matt Chandler forsakes the trendy to invite readers into authentic Christian maturity.
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Using Paul's radical letter to the Philippians as his road map, Matt Chandler forsakes the trendy to invite readers into authentic Christian maturity.
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You can read the (much) fuller review on SpoiledMilks (8/4/13)
Chandler wrote this book "to invite readers into authentic Christian maturity," and looks at some of Paul's themes in Philippians, a letter written to help grow one to maturity, unity, and contentment in Christ
The Chocolate Milk
The book really began opening up on chapter 4. Ch 4 is about showing humility to a world that wants to show off. Yet do we follow God for a nice earthly mansion, or because of who He is and what He's done? The life of humility is based on the cross of Christ.
Ch 5 was about yearning for a relationship with Christ over trying to be good for Him. Chandler tries to do away with living to be a better person over knowing God. "It's the difference between obeying to be accepted and obeying because we are accepted" (78).
Chandler advocates for being content in Christ and discontent in our imperfect selves. Strive for perfection to get stronger in our weaknesses (prayer, studying, evangelism, serving, etc), knowing God will use us despite our weaknesses.
Chandler's book is theologically sound. His points and arguments come from Scripture, his examples are interesting and to the point, and he's level-headed with common sense.
The Spoiled Milk
A mere few times Chandler doesn't explain the cultural context which would help with the application.
In Ch 5, Chandler says the dogs from Philippians 3 are those who say, "I'm not as bad as I was when I was in college. I'm not as bad as I was when I first got married. I'm not as bad as you" (53). They want to think and say those things for their superior spiritual/moral goodness. It would have been more helpful for Chandler to have said who the dogs were and then applied it to the reader's life. Instead, he mentions the dogs and then jumps to applying it to the reader's life. The "dogs" are a bunch of pro-foreskin-cutting Judaizers. How does this relate to me? They think circumcision is met with God's approval. Now I can relate them with the "I'm not as bad as I was when..." mentality.
This book would be geared more toward any member of the church, especially youth and college age. It can be hard to find his main point, but there are plenty of good tidbits and ideas.
