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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. In an age of spiritual adultery, how do Christians demonstrate fidelity to Christ, in facing laws and social systems rooted in immoral, sinful values? Christians are called to be 'salt and light' and to bless their communities. How then should Christians, as faithful watchmen and committed citizens living in secular democracies, respond to a political agenda driven by a godless philosophy which has harmful social and spiritual consequences?
God looks for a Christian to stand in the gap and to advance His redemptive purpose for our nations. In this book, Dr. Li-ann Thio identifies the gap and explains how we are to 'mind' it. She examines how the spirit of the anti-Christ, the spirit of lawlessness, manifests in the philosophy, morality and politics that shape our laws, systems and mindsets. Keys to identify the traits and agents of lawlessness are provided. Mind the Gap offers practical and biblical guidelines to equip us to resist the evil of lawlessness and to promote what is true and righteous. This is integral to Christian discipleship and living as a holy sacrifice. So get equipped to engage in the public square and contend for righteousness in an age of lawlessness.
- Sales Rank: #2718043 in Books
- Published on: 2009-04-29
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Review
Surveying the signs of the times, Professor Thio discerns an increasingly hostile secular culture that shouts down those who believe in objective Right and Wrong. Beyond wringing hands over whether it is still possible to have a shared vision of what constitutes the Common Good where the cult of the atomized individual reigns, she asks how the professing Christian will respond...A prophetic challenge to those who are lukewarm in their Faith. --Piero A. Tozzi, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), New York, USA
About the Author
Dr Li-ann Thio is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she teaches and researches constitutional and administrative law, international law and human rights law, with an emphasis on Asian practice. She holds a B.A. (Jurisprudence) from Oxford University and a Masters and Doctorate in law from Harvard Law School and Cambridge University respectively. In 2004, she received the NUS Young Researcher award for her scholarship and has been twice ranked an NUS Excellent Teacher. From January 2007 to May 2009, she was selected by a special parliamentary select committee to the constitutional office of a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament (Eleventh Session). She had a life-changing experience with Jesus Christ as a first-year law undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford. This spiritual encounter caused her to disavow atheism, humanism and nihilism, and to embrace authentic Christianity.
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8 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Mind the Gap - The Author, The Book, & The Living Out of Her Faith
By L. Carol
Caveat Emptor: I am a personal friend of Dr Li-ann Thio.
However, this has in no way predisposed me in favor of this book.
Over the past 20 years, I have witnessed the author's unfoldment from a gung-ho law student to a revered professor to an intrepid MP and now an accidental author who wrote `Mind The Gap' during an introspective phase. Most who have seen the author in action would not be unfamiliar with her bold and no-nonsense public persona - "The presence of the Christian should be felt in the community, in the works of social service and in the shaping of public policy for the common good, as well as through being a witness to the Good News" (p. 100).
But the inside scoop is this - while Dr. Thio's intellect is widely acknowledged, I am much less stunned by it than by the goodness of her heart and strength that could only grow out of having been with Christ (Acts 4:13). She might appear forthright at first blush but in reality she is meek and gentle in spirit. I can testify firsthand that Dr Thio gave up the comfort of her own digs to accommodate a friend when she learnt of the latter's dire living conditions in a heartbeat. I can also attest to her affection for her doggie companions that is in keeping with Proverbs 12:10a "A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast". These anecdotes obviously do not do justice to Dr. Thio's unswerving faith and works for the Lord. I wrote them not as flattering preambles but to provide a sincere indicant of the author's heart condition which overflows into her actions, including her speech and work for the Lord. Empowered by her FAITH in God, the author has taken a bold stand speaking up against the grain of accepted secular world views and warped modern day theologies (P.104-110), culminating in this book of hers, forcefully contending for righteousness in an age of lawlessness.
`Mind The Gap' starts out explicating the author's Christian belief which has translated into her unabated zeal in doing God's work, whether as a law professor or a member of parliament, in the midst of persecution, mocking, revilement, ostracism and life threats (p.83). The author's continual pursuit of personal godliness and thirst for God's knowledge is cogent in her writing, a feat that testifies the copious amount of time she has spent assimilating His words and truth through a motley assemblage of Christian literature. Her book illustrates how the author has lived out her faith by obediently placing God as the ultimate goal in her life, calling to mind Oswald Chamber's words, "shutting out every other consideration and keeping herself before God for this one thing only - My Utmost for His Highest".
`Mind The Gap' is a book about LOVE. It is a book that speaks truth in love, piercing our souls and convicting us that we "all have sinned and fall short of the grace of God" (Romans 3:23) as it should be. It is the love of God made manifest in the author's writing to exhort and restore fellow Christians who have tarried or been led astray or in being overly tolerant of extremist humanistic world views (p.238-241) or plain cowardly (p.266-267) to usefulness (Galatians 6:1-2). It is not a book of abstract concepts but one that comes with perspicuous instructions as to how one could go about achieving and perpetuating sanctification (Chapters 1-3), not least its practical guide to identifying our adversaries by their fruits (Chapter 10) and exposing their rhetorical tricks in distorting the truth and further their own agendas (Chapter 11). My favorite is the author's sagacious comeback in fending off Ad Hominem arguments (p.278-280). Further, the author debunks many verisimilitudes and supposed Christianly thinking by nudging us back to the heart of the issue: to focus on being right before God; to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness above all else (Matthew 6:33); and to make an irrevocable decision to count being crucified with Christ nothing but a sublime gain, no expense spared (Philippians 1:21).
`Mind The Gap' also gives us HOPE. Not the hopeless variety of `hope-so' and `hopefully' kind of hope. It gives us a blessed hope of victory: while we may suffer for a fleeting moment for our faith that is not dissimilar to the backdrop against which the Apostle John penned the Book's grand finale, God is faithful (Revelations 15: 2-4, 17: 14, 20: 11-12). It reminds us of the hope that while we cannot heal the world or save souls (regeneration is purely God's prerogative), we can make it a better place by taking personal responsibilities - for ourselves (Christian sanctification and going on the offensive against the enemy); our neighbors (witnessing in love; overcoming evil with good et al); our churches (praying for and supporting our pastors and leaders); and our governments (being actively involved or acting as voices of conscience, or both, P. 242 & P. 290-291).
Finally, `Mind the Gap' is a profession that `HEAVEN ON EARTH' is not a far-fetched Pollyannaish ideology but a distinct possibility if we seek to be imitators of Christ (aptly highlighted in the story of the Centurion in the gospel of Luke, p.339-341). In the same vein, C.S. Lewis posited in the preface to his book The Great Divorce: "I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself." It is my prayer that Christian readers would be jolted into emulating the verve and vigor so eminently pervasive in the author's life and works for Christ: to be in this world and not of it; to live fearlessly and passionately embodying God's message of faith, hope and love, functioning as shining light and tangy salt.
I would exhort all who take their Christian faith seriously to read this book.
5 stars.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Well written and personally challenging
By Carlton A. Dennis II
A question that has plagued my mind for some time now is "How can Christians be dogmatic about anything in a pluralistic society, especially at the political level?" My father introduced me to this book and I have found it challenging to my addiction to relativism. I found it to be well written and the author credible. I would recommend that all Christians give it a read. In fact, I intend to start a book club with some friends so that we can discuss some of the ideas from the book.
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