Book Review: "Christianity with Power"
             Christianity With Power helps us recognize that our cultural inhibits us from experiencing and living the wholeness of our faith. Dr. Kraft helps the reader to comprehend our Western worldview and how it affects our view of the bible.
             It is interesting (and discouraging) to note that even though we are Christians, our basic assumptions are usually more like those of the non-Christian Westerners around us than we like to admit. We have, as Christians, made certain modifications. But even though there is often a wide discrepancy between the teachings of Scripture and the common Western assumptions...we often find ourselves more Western than scriptural (p 26)
             Dr. Kraft gives us many examples of our Western worldview, which is important to understand and be aware of so we can change if need be. One-example talks about how westerners have left out the supernatural world. There are many other cultures around the world that hold on to the supernatural world very closely, like in Africa.
             Indeed, unlike most of the peoples of the world, we divide the world into what we call "natural" and what we call "supernatural." And then we largely disregard the supernatural. Our focus is squarely on the natural world, with little or no attention paid to the supernatural world (p 27).
             We live in a world where people are starving for power. In spite of biblical teaching, even church members look for supernatural power from crystals, channeling, Physic networking and other New Age beliefs because they are not finding it in the churches.
             Christians need to change their religious ideas, but it is hard for Western society to accept change when traditional value is held high. In other areas of the Western world, the scientific world, change is happening constantly. Dr. Kraft explains this further,
             Yet Westerns tend to be much more hesitant when it comes to change in religious ide...