Slave by John MacArthur

This book is about what John MacArthur calls "the hidden truth about your identity in Christ." He says that being a Christian is all about being a slave of Christ. His argument is that multiple translations of the Bible have mistranslated the word doulos. Where many translations use the English word servant or bond-servant, MacArthur says the current translation would be the world slave. Using the word slave can help us better understand our relationship with God as our master, controller, and owner, and us as His slaves, absolutely submissive and totally obedient.

I enjoyed the first couple of chapters of this book. I thought he drew great parallels between slaves during Roman and Bible times and Christians as slaves of Christ. However, my interest began to wane as the book went on. I thought it was hard to stay connected with his train of thought because he quoted multiple other texts, making his book somewhat choppy. I do not feel like I gained any additional information in reading the second half of the book as what I learned in the first half. I was hoping that his approach would be a more practical approach – what it practically looks like to be a slave to Christ in our daily lives. I was a little disappointed with this book.

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