WHY I BELIEVE
By Roger Carswell
10Publishing. 176 pages. £5.99
ISBN 978 1 911 272 977
This book is ‘pure Roger Carswell’: an attractive combination of faithful theology, memorable illustrations and winsome appeal. Someone said: ‘The church is at its healthiest when its theologians are evangelists and its evangelists are theologians.’ This came to mind very soon after picking up Why I Believe, which discusses the evidence for seven key Christian beliefs.
It opens with the author’s own story of responding to the gospel, but quickly moves into why all should believe. It covers belief in the Bible as the Word of God, the devil as the enemy of God, the alienation of the world from God, Jesus as the Son of God, death and its defeat by God, becoming a child of God, and Jesus the only way to God. Two final chapters appeal to the reader’s own response.
