Beyond the Box

Do you or your home group wish to discuss a provocative book on being the church today?  If so, Tom Stuckey’s book on John’s gospel may be the perfect catalyst.  Tom, a Methodist minister, uses anecdote and story as well as John’s gospel, to see things differently, ‘beyond the box’.  He is writing for those who are already within the church family; each chapter has questions at the end and so the book is suitable for a home group.

Tom acknowledges the cultural pressures we face: lack of time, competition for our time from other interests and the church traditions we have inherited within a world that is forever changing.  He asks us to go on a guided tour with him through John’s gospel while he comments on its important features - just as we might approach a cathedral with a tour guide.

Tom invites us to look ‘beyond the box’ of our normal viewpoint and so meet the Living God.  Whether he succeeds is for us, his readers, to say.

Mike Pearson