"The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" by John M. Comer. A Review
The whole book is easily summarized in the title, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry." John Mark Comer, founding pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, author and teacher, has written this 304-page popular, breezy hardback to seek to help people push back against the divine tyrant, "Hurry." It was a noble effort that I think he successfully achieves, mostly. Since there are thousands upon thousands of ratings and reviews, I'll make mine quick-ish: cons then pros. The cons are three. The first, rather nitpicky on my part, has to do with a Greek word he references. "Keep in mind, the Greek word that we translate "salvation" is soteria ; it's the same word we translate "healing." When you're reading the New Testament and you read that somebody was "healed" by Jesus and then you read somebody else was "saved" by Jesus, you're reading the same Greek word" (77). Actually, I don't know anywh...