This is a good book. Maybe a great book for some people. I find some of the examples dated. It is copyrighted 1989. But I recommend it. And probably parts of it will anger/challenge you.
Perhaps the most challenging, angering idea is found on 148-149, where he is concluding the book:
"No ethic is worthy that does not require potentially the suffering of those we love. Nothing cuts against the liberal ethical sentimentality more than this. We wish that there were some means of holding convictions without requiring the suffering of our friends and family. We try to make love an individual emotion that does not ask someone else to suffer because of our love. Of course, such things like marriage or child-bearing incomprehensible since these practices inextricably involve those we love suffering as part and parcel of our joint endeavors."
Typing this makes it seem less radical that it is to me. I have tried hard to not involve my loved ones in suffering for what my believe. I have limited my choices so as to not disturb my family's comfort over the years. I operated from a different idea.
Not that you do not consider the affects on others of our decisions based on ministry and such but our actions based on our love of God should be more important.
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