在我们所处的文化中，软弱是我们千方百计要隐藏和否认的，甚至是可耻的。然而对于基督徒，软弱却是通往生命之道。智慧的人生导师巴刻在本书中结合圣经的真理和自己的经历，让我们看到，人唯有认识和接纳自己的软弱，并依靠上帝的大能，才能成为真正刚强的人。在这里，你会找到一条从灰心失望走向自由喜乐的道路。
若你如我一样，曾因软弱而灰心挣扎，那么这本书正适合你。我们都渴望别人因我们的能力而仰慕我们，却看到我们其实常被软弱所困。莫非我们只能活在沮丧中吗？不！有一条路，可以引我们进入喜乐的自由。巴刻博士知道这条路。他带我们查考《哥林多后书》，把这条路指给我们，好让我们如同保罗，“更喜欢夸自己的软弱” 。
——乔恩·布卢姆(Jon Bloom)，“渴慕神”事工机构主席，《不凭眼见：信心故事的新视角》作者
巴刻把新约圣经中最被忽视的一个重要原则显明出来——使徒保罗的力量，实乃来自于他的软弱。时至今日，仍然只有谦卑地屈身通过软弱之门，才可能经历基督全部的能力。 巴刻的精辟论述，既挑战我们，也告诉我们如何在软弱中靠着基督得力。
——约翰·迪克森（John Dickson）牧师，《福音派大倒退》作者
Dr. Packer, the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College, was hailed by TIME as “a doctrinal Solomon” among Protestants. “Mediating debates on everything from a particular Bible translation to the acceptability of free-flowing Pentecostal spirituality, Packer helps unify a community [evange licalism] that could easily fall victim to its internal tensions.”
Knowing God, Dr. Packer’s seminal 1973 work, was lauded as a book which articulated shared beliefs for members of diverse denominations; the TIME profile quotes Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington as saying, “conservative Methodists and Presbyterians and Baptists could all look to [Knowing God] and say, ‘This sums it all up for us.’”
In a similar tribute to Dr. Packer almost ten years ago, American theologian Mark Noll wrote in Christianity Today that, “Packer’s ability to address immensely important subjects in crisp, succinct sentences is one of the reasons why, both as an author and speaker, he has played such an important role among American evangelicals for four decades.”
For over 25 years Regent College students have been privileged to study under Dr. Packer’s clear and lucid teaching, and our faculty, staff and students celebrate the international recognition he rightly receives as a leading Christian thinker and teacher.
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