Life’s Too Short to Miss the Real Thing
Bob George, Classic Christianity: Life’s Too Short to Miss the Real Thing! (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2010) 192 pages.
I enjoy classical music—Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Wagner, Chopin—freely admitting that the word classical provides a sense of age and mystery to what was once received as popular music conceived within the culture of its day. As a young boy growing up in Kansas, I remember listening to the Beach Boys, Yardbirds, Beatles, the Lettermen, the Mamas and the Papas on contemporary rock ‘n roll stations and wondering what it must be like to live in a cool place like California; today, I occasion the few and far between classic rock ’n roll stations in order to venture a memory from the oldies-but-goodies of my youth growing up in Kansas. Bob George’s book Classic Christianity is in large measure a retrospective look into the author’s Christian life both personally and in ministry (People to People Ministries). Remember the good old days when believing in Jesus meant believing in Him for everlasting life? When being born again meant going from the eternal condemnation of death to the eternal blessing of life with Jesus? Oh the sweet embrace of God’s grace and love while we learn to live eternal life in a way pleasing our Lord and Savior… such is Classic Christianity.
Bob George encourages you and I to live the life Jesus gifts us and experience authentic Christianity. However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life (NKJV—1 Timothy 1:16). The Apostle Paul’s retrospective swan song to his son Timothy highlights the culture of first century Christianity when believing on Jesus for eternal life defined what it meant to be a Christian, a believer in Jesus Christ who lives the God-given certainty of eternal life or life in His Savior’s name. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life (NKJV—John 6:47-48). Thankfully, Jesus’ promise of everlasting life is as good as the day He made it. He is the bread of life who gives us eternal life and then teaches us how to have it more abundantly (John 10:10)! Yesterday’s truth remains today’s truth—the life Jesus gifts to us as his children is life with Him for all eternity and that’s good news worth living each and every day! As George reminds us, Life’s Too Short to Miss the Real Thing!