compares and contrasts the Biblical model of spiritual intimacy with the self-centered "feeling" approach too many in the church follow. More importantly, he outlines the dangers of those approaches. This book will force you to seriously think about how you worship and how you view your relationship with God. It will also encourage you to listen a bit more closely to the message you hear from the Christianity-lite/group-therapy churches. I have read many books in the 22 years that I have been a Christian. But I have never read one that has so effectively challenged some of the Christian beliefs that I have been brought up with in the evangelical churches I have been involved with. This book affected me so much that I often had to set it down and ask the Lord to give me wisdom and understanding to discern the truth or falsity of the author's assertions. By the end of the book, I was fairly convinced that much of what Michael Horton has to say in this book is true today. When the church puts a greater emphasis on the theory of glory as opposed to the theory of the cross, you get Christians who are more focused on themselves and their own spirituality (subjective feelings) instead of Christians who need to look outside of themselves to the grace and saving work of Jesus Christ (objective knowledge, or the written Word of God). This book has literally changed my life. The evidence being that I now