cover image The Good Life: Genuine Christianity for the Middle Class

The Good Life: Genuine Christianity for the Middle Class

David Matzko McCarthy. Brazos Press, $13.99 (176pp) ISBN 978-1-58743-068-8

Some Christians advocate a total asceticism that requires giving all money and goods to the poor; others embrace a health-and-wealth gospel and claim that God wants believers to be rich. Which view is correct? According to David McCarthy in The Good Life: Genuine Christianity for the Middle Class, people don't need to go to either extreme; it is possible to be a responsible Christian and live comfortably though not excessively. The admonition to ""seek ye first the kingdom of God,"" he says, is ""not idealistic advice, but a very practical way of love,"" and forms the key to Christian values.