Book Brief - Craftsmen: Skillfully Leading Your Family For Christ

Craftsmen: Skillfully Leading Your Family For Christ

John Crotts

Shepherd Press (December 30, 2005)

Using the metaphor of an apprentice loooking to learn a trade or craft John Crotts book "is designed to simplify the quest for wisdom."

The first section of the book defines wisdom and its basis - the fear of God. The second section applies God's wisdom to different areas of living, including work, marriage, speech and relationships. The book of Proverbs provides the bulk of support but "attention is given to the rest of Scripture as well."

Crotts is a skillful writer and lays out a wealth of application through careful exigesis of the Scripture and points always to the "ultimate Wise Man" - Jesus Christ. With study questions included, this book will prove helpful to any man - currently leading a family or not.

"Without any thought that God is watching their every movement, listening to their words, and even inspecting the motivations of their hearts, a countless number of men live without the slightest thought of God. Even if they give lip service to his existence and deep down suppose he exists in a corner somewhere, these guys go about their routines without the slightest concern for what God thinks or what He may do to them. As foolish as the family having lunch with the tiger would be [a story told earlier about a family deciding to have a picnic in the tiger enclosure of a zoo because, in their thinking, since they couldn't see the tiger then he must not be there], living as if the God of the Bible does not exist or does not matter is infinitely more foolish. After all, all the tiger can do is rip you to shreds and eat you for lunch, God, on the other hand, can and will send to hell all those who spurn him."

Rating: Paperback