BILLY BRAY IN HIS OWN WORDS
By Chris Wright
Highland Books. 288 pages. £8.99
ISBN 1 897913 73 7
It is undeniable that some of the people that God has used very greatly over the centuries have been highly unusual individuals.
It should be equally clear that this is not necessarily an endorsement of all their characteristics, methods or utterances! We want our Christian heroes to be right in everything they believe and do; all too often we assume they are and follow them uncritically. Heroes easily become idols! Conversely, we reject them altogether and assume there is nothing we can learn from them when we discover things they said or did with which we cannot agree.
