Review: The Whole Counsel of God

The Whole Counsel of God: Why and How to Preach the Entire Bible

256 pages

Publisher: Crossway

ISBN-10: 1433560070

ISBN-13: 978-1433560071

The preaching of the Word of God is one of the noblest tasks and one that requires more responsibility. We live in an age in which many Christian communities do not receive a healthy and good exposition of the Scriptures, due to various factors.

"The Whole Counsel of God" is a book that tries to be of help to experienced preachers like those who are just beginning. The authors' objective could be summarized as follows: Provide biblical foundations for preaching, provide ideas for the elaboration of sermons or sermon series, and finally, establish some pastoral guidelines regarding preaching.

This book is not a "how to lecture in twenty-four hours" or to facilitate the homiletical process. No, the focus is to inspire the preacher to expose all of God's counsel. The authors say: "The Bible is God's means of communicating to all people the fixed things he wants all to hear" and "A full view of Jesus comes only from a full examination of the testimony to him in all of the Scriptures. Moreover, a full view of how to think about and live the Christian life also comes only from a full examination of all the texts of Scripture"

Finally, the authors offer us good examples of how to make sermon series. Which I thought was wonderful. Truly a very good book about preaching.

About the authors:

Tim Patrick (PhD, Macquarie University) is principal of the Bible College of South Australia, an affiliated college of the Australian College of Theology, where he lecturers in theology and practical ministry. Before moving into theological education and ministry formation, Tim served in local church ministry for ten years, where he worked with a number of congregations and led a number of revitalization projects.

Andrew Reid (ThD, Ridley College) is the inaugural principal of the Evangelical Theological College of Asia in Singapore. He previously served as the lead pastor of several churches in Australia and as lecturer in Old Testament, hermeneutics, and Hebrew at Ridley College Melbourne. He was one of the founding council members of the Gospel Coalition Australia and is editorial director of the ministry, training, and leadership channel of TGCA’s website.

You can get more information about this book, here

I received this book for free from the publisher and was not required to write a positive review for the book.