The Barnabas Way : An Unexpected Path to God

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Summary: A Role Model for All of Us
Review: After completing The Barnabas Way, I felt compelled to accomplish three tasks with some dispatch: to read it again, to jot the author a thank you note and to buy another copy to send along with the note, asking the author to inscribe it to my best friend.

In a time when bookshelves are crowded with variations on the "what's in it for me?" philosophy of the spiritual life, Mr. Sloan answers that question elegantly by refusing to recognize it as the appropriate question. He declines to preach or promise; instead, he points the reader to Barnabas, illuminating his hero's story with contemporary illustrations that bring him to life. In so doing, he allows us to see for ourselves the way to "an unexpected path to God."

To read this deceptively slim volume is to be reminded that "what's in it for me?" is far richer than we suppose, that it's available to all of us and that the path to it diverges from what many of us assume. Barnabas and his modern descendants put feet and hands to the revolutionary ideas about who and how God loves that Phillip Yancey makes clear in What's So Amazing About Grace.