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Placer Puro: Por Que El Creyente Se Siente Tan Mal De Sentirse Bien? (2009)

by Gary L. Thomas(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0829756264 (ISBN13: 9780829756265)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Vida Publishers

review 1: "We consider 'pleasure' a synonym for 'sin.' If it feels good, we think, it must be the devil's handmaiden." Christians can have the false dilemma of seeking pleasure OR doing what's right. Gary Thomas sets the record straight and carefully lays out the premise that seeking pleasure IS doing right.Christians need to get their minds right and begin to believe that the community of God is a party.Rather than living 'not to sin,' Christians need to begin living for pleasure. It doesn't even sound right to say such a thing does it?Gary Thomas lays out the case for leaving off obsessing over our sin and beginning to delight in the pleasures that God has given us to enjoy. "Let us learn to fill our souls with beauty, art, noble achievement, fine meals, rich relationships, and so... moreul-cleansing laughter. And... let us be wary of a faith that denies these blessings as 'worldly' and unfit, as though Satan rather than God designed them."In this age of constantly seeking the pleasures of the world, it is easy to look at pleasure as worldly and evil and that the anecdote is a sober, dull life. Thomas thankfully reassures the serious Christian that God absolutely delights in our seeking pleasure and in fact God invented pleasure. Of course, seeking pleasure must begin with a heart filled by the Holy Spirit.Thomas makes straight the path to pleasure and dares you to live with feasting and joy.The one detraction is the somewhat pedantic writing which is probably a result of trying to make a concise message long enough to be a book.
review 2: Can we as Christians have pleasure?I think some of us get so caught up with all the bad stuff that we think God doesn’t want us to enjoy life. It is really far from the truth isn’t it? I mean we don’t have to be stifled in our pleasures to love the Lord more do we? Pure Pleasure by Gary Thomas talks exactly about that. He presents issues about God that we struggle with. How to have a healthy pleasure, and what they are.I was delightfully surprised when I started reading this. Gary has his feet firmly planted in the Lord’s Word, and I loved his attitude about it. He challenged me to check off my internal pleasure list and how off or on track I was. It also reminded me of some of the reasons why I am attracted to my husband, and other people who have authentic Christian lives. I mean do you ever notice those who really are different — that special glimmer in their eyes? I know with my husband he has such a pleasure and sheer joy in the Lord Jesus that I can’t help but be attracted to him. I think Gary basically sums it up nicely on page 25 when he says “Satan will trap some with compulsions toward illicit pleasures. These traps are well known and preached against every week. But other believers tend toward prideful, work-oriented compulsions in which any rest or any enjoyment is seen as weakness or “giving in.” Since God didn’t make us to live in sin or without pleasure, either way of life will eventually destroy us.”He further goes on to ask how can we honor our Lord if we deny everything he created that he called good? It got me thinking how many times I ignore what God said was good. On the other side, it sure made me reconsider my reasoning behind “little sins” of over indulgent and how it affects my joy. (He got me on the potato chips! lol and if you’re wondering what I’m jabbering about you’ll have to get the book!)I would gladly suggest this book to friends who are feeling guilty about feeling good (in the Lord) and really think Gary makes some great points in his book! He’ll be on my quoteable list for sure!** review copy provided less

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