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Overall, I thought the study was beneficial and each chapter's point well-made. It did bother me very much, though, that many of the supporting and inspirational quotes sprinkled throughout the chapters were from people whose theology is either radically variant from what I understand the author's to be, or down-right heretical. Tozer, who is very much Pentecostal in theology and practice, had some very targeted, excellent supporting quotes (as is so often the case with Tozer; much that he says is spot-on, but his overall theology is so deviant that I tend to approach him with EXTREME caution). However, quoting Hannah Whithall Smith is too much for me. I read her book, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life, and while much that she had to say was both inspiringly written and touching, this woman is a heretic teaching LIES. The point of her book is that Christians not only should, but can, be 100% sinless in this life in this flesh. She was a proponent of the holiness movement that taught many odd things, including this guilt-inducing lie that we can perfect our flesh and completely overcome our sin nature here and now by the force of our wills. So many bad things grew out of the holiness movement and I was disappointed that such an awful book has found such acceptance and was quoted as though it were a good resource in Cynthia Heald's book. Frankly, using these two authors as support for her points (which she didn't need. . .she had plenty of in-context Scriptural support for each lesson) makes me suspect of the other authors she referred to that I am unfamiliar with.That said, I do intend to work my way through her other ladies' Bible studies.
