The Oath

Is a book by Frank Peretti, and I am only halfway through it. It is a "Christian thriller," which sounds extremely hilarious and somewhat ridiculous, but it has good points to it. He is a good writer.

A Christian thriller? Ironic. Really, it sounds ridiculous. Christianity is so BORING, right? What about Christianity actually causes conflict (other than hypocrisy)? Isn't being a Christian just about wearing white shirts and khaki pants, bringing a Bible to school, saying a bunch of mumbo-jumbo prayer stuff, and then obeying all these rules. What's so scary about that? Sounds lame to me.

That is lame. And that's not Christianity. Some of those things result from being a Christian, like obedience to God, but it's always obedience about good stuff, like respecting and loving people, not doing bad stuff to ourselves or to others. The Christian thriller part of the book resides in the fact that the bad stuff in us, the sin, kills us. Satan and his minions want to destroy us. It eats away at us, and Christians are in a battle, a war. We do not fight against flesh and blood. The true Christian life is more of a thriller than any other life one could live. It fulfills and completes us, for we are created to honor and love God, to honor and love one another.