A review of Route 66 by Krish Kandiah
Krish Kandiah has done us all a favour. He has managed to write a book about the Bible that is creative, readable, thoughtful and evangelical - which not all books on the scriptures are! - yet which also lends itself brilliantly to study in small groups. Launching off the back of this year's Spring Harvest theme, Route 66 takes the eight main types of writing in the Bible (narrative, law, Psalms, wisdom, prophets, gospels, epistles and apocalyptic), and uses them as a structure for a superb eight-week course, complete with illustrations, insightful analysis, group questions and small group studies.
Perhaps inevitably, there are some casualties of the eight-week structure: Acts becomes an epistle, Numbers a book of law, and 1 and 2 Chronicles, as well as Ruth, are lost altogether. But the benefits of Krish's helpful structure far outweigh these minor drawbacks, and more importantly, the book manages to combine theological precision, grounded in scholarship, with a bouncy and conversational style that make it accessible to all of us. In short, it is hard to imagine a small group, or an individual, who would not find Route 66 useful. An excellent resource!
- Andrew Wilson
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