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Title: Feel
Subtitle: The Power of Listening to Your Heart
Author: Matthew Elliott
Narrator: Rob Lamont
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-09
Publisher: Oasis Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
In Feel, Matthew Elliott takes a critical look at what our culture and many churches have taught about controlling and ignoring our emotions. He contends that some of the great thinkers of the modern era got it all wrong, and that the Bible teaches that God intends for us to live in and through our emotions. Emotions are good things that God created us to feel. Matthew helps us to understand our emotions and equips us to nurture healthy feelings and reject destructive ones. So refresh yourself, drink deeply, and learn to live with a new, passionate heart.
Members Reviews:
Feel is Faithful
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Three weeks ago I walked into Borders, eager to spend my $50 gift card. First, I picked up a book on Switzerland (I recently discovered that I'm Swiss). Next, I grabbed a biography of Genghis Kahn (for some reason I find Genghis fascinating). By my calculations I had about 10 bucks left to spend, so I sauntered into the "Christian" isle to see if anything caught my eye and, something did, a book called Feel.
This book surprised me.
Not only did I think a lot, I also felt a lot while reading Matthew Elliott's Feel.
Apparently, several years ago this fella Matthew Elliott did doctoral research on the role of emotion in the New Testament (wish I had thought of that). That research turned into Elliott's book Faithful Feelings, a book that examines the felt experience of Christian living, how emotion was viewed by the New Testament writers in their cultural context. That book was published in 2006. I hope to read it. John Piper calls the book, "The most thorough study on emotions in the New Testament."
Published earlier this year, Feel seems to be a popularization/distillation/fleshing out of Elliott's earlier work. The book is aimed at two significant errors Elliott observes in American Christianity:
1. "we have made our relationship with God more about fulfilling our duty than expressing our passion. We make our spiritual lives into a list of dos and don'ts. We pursue this list more than we actually pursue Jesus. And this leads to a life that eventually becomes tired and numb, devoid of feeling, dead."
2. "we have become indoctrinated in the belief that emotions are unreliable, dangerous, and bad."
From his study of Scripture, Elliott's book builds upon several key ideas:
* "our emotions were given to us by God to drive us to our best"
* "emotions are among the most logical and dependable things in our lives"
* "emotions give us a window to see truth like nothing else"
* "the true health of our spiritual lives is measured by how we feel"
If some of those statements trouble you, note that Elliott's writing reads like a modern day Religious Affections--Jonathan Edwards' 1746 classic which examines the centrality of emotions in Scripture and in the Christian life. Elliott is careful to ground his ideas, proposals, and conclusions in Scripture.
I really like this book. It affected me. It convicted me. It helped me. I'm celebrating God's providence, how he led me to peek into the "Christian" isle at Borders and spot Feel. Reading Feel has come with perfect timing. The thesis and thrust of the book hit a sanctification bullseye in me.