Saved to Sin No More

Review of Saved to Sin No More by Brad Wetherell.

Theology tends to come in waves. A couple of decades ago the theological focus was on gender roles. A decade ago it was the Trinity. Over the past few years we have been experiencing a renaissance of the doctrine of Union with Christ. The most recent… drop? Current? I’m very much a land lubber and don’t know what part of a wave is called. But the book Saved to Sin No More is part of that wave. Whatever it’s called.

Specifically this book examines the effect of union with Christ on us: namely, holiness. As we grow as believers we should grow in obedience. As we grow in obedience we should become holier. That is not a common thing for Christians to think about today. Why focus on holiness when we have online outrage to pursue? Can we really think about that while Trump is doing such awful/amazing things, depending on where we land politically? Isn’t this holiness business really a distraction from the important stuff? And after all, isn’t our public action more important than being slaves to our self-righteous consciences?

Okay, clearly I’ve spent too much time online the last decade. But the point is that holiness is an essential part of the Christian life. And if we want to be holy, we must become ever more united with Christ. This little book is an excellent guide to doing so, and it’s one I cheerfully recommend putting on your shelf.

One interesting thing that I don’t want to dig too much into but I did at least notice. This is a small book, in terms of size. We keep a shelf of smaller books and a shelf of everything else, and this one definitely fits with the smaller books. These are just a touch over mass markets in height, and tend to be thin. What’s interesting is that Saved to Sin No More isn’t more or less short than a lot of books on our larger shelves, and I suspect that were this published before the digital age full arrived this would have been a full-sized trade.

I suspect that’s a sign of the changing publishing industry, which is interesting enough to include in a blog post but probably doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Do with that what you will.

Dr. Coyle Neal co-hosts the City of Man Podcast and is an Amazon Associate (which is linked in this blog). He teaches Political Science, Philosophy, and History in Southwest Missouri.