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Title: Weakness Is the Way
Subtitle: Life with Christ Our Strength
Author: J. I. Packer
Narrator: Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-19-13
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 33 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
Most people think of weakness as purely negative, but true Christianity embraces weakness as a way of life. In this collection of meditations on 2 Corinthians, renowned Bible scholar and theologian J. I. Packer reflects on the central importance of weakness for the Christian life. He exhorts listeners to look to Christ for strength, affirmation, and contentment in the midst of their own sin and frailty.
Now in his mid-eighties, Packer mediates on the truths of Scripture with pastoral warmth and exegetical care, drawing on lessons learned from the experience of growing older and coming face-to-face with his own mortality. Overflowing with wisdom gleaned from a life of obedience to Christ and dependence on his Word, this encouraging audiobook ultimately directs listeners to the God who promises to be ever-present and all-sufficient.
Members Reviews:
A vital topic for every Christian to consider.
This review, by Dr. Nicholson, has been provided courtesy of Desert Bible Institute (www.desertbibleinstitute.com).
We, as Americans, are an extremely proud people. Dr. Packer shows in his book Weakness is the Way how only through embracing the reality of our weakness and turning our full need to God can we start to glorify Him and allow change to be worked in ourselves.
The opening of this book is rock solid. Packer gives a detailed definition of weakness with both various biblical allusions and personal anecdotes that make the subject matter come alive for his audience. He uses, primarily, First and Second Corinthians to show the biblical example of God's people dealing with both spiritual and physical weakness. He augments this with a great deal of chapter-and-verse support. He concludes his opening points with his own "gloom and discouragement" in dealing with physical, and then mental, weakness in his own life.
Throughout the book, Packer manages his trademark smooth, conversational style making the whole experience more like having a conversation with a knowledgeable grandfather than a preeminent biblical scholar. Packer offers a clear, didactic structure to his audience. He regularly employs an organization of: definition, explanation (through visual, allusion, or analogy), and application.
He further educates his audience by using strong, descriptive, concise language that forces the audience to expand their vocabulary and understanding of the topic. He shows his audience the respect of leaving the academic bar set high but, unlike many biblical writers, takes the time to explain what he is saying in a way that makes his more complex ideas understandable. An example of this is how Packer explains the unique structure of both Greek and Pauline grammar and style in a way that is challenging to the novice or student yet is still approachable.
The second half of the book; however, lacks some of the vigor of the first. Packer uses the controversial topic of tithing to show our innate human weakness, sinfulness, and need to give over to God all of our weakness. He stresses how we must recognize our reliance on the Lord. It seems from the attention that Packer gives this subject that his position is that this is one of the greatest trials for most Christians, although he never really comes out and says as much.
