Wounded by God's People - a review

Wounded by God's People: Discovering How God's Love Heals Our Hearts by Anne Graham Lotz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a very important book for me personally, though it isn’t all that deep or insightful theologically.

The daughter of Billy Graham can write and speak well, drawing on Hagar’s life to show us how to handle hard times, and use them to draw us nearer to the Lord.

She strikes an important balance in this regard: how to name the wounds we have suffered, without falling prey to a victim mentality about them. It’s important to recognize and identify your wounds, to admit you have been wounded, to see how it is affecting your faith and outlook on life. If we don’t see it or deny it is there, that can be just as harmful. But if we only see the wound and look back on our wounder with resentment, or look inward with self-pity, instead of treating it and moving forward with faith in God, we are no better off.

I don’t think Lotz is a Calvinist, but she strikes a strong note of God’s sovereignty in this way: we wouldn’t know God as well as we do, if we didn’t walk through trials and come through them still looking to Him in faith. But as a Graham will do, she also emphasizes our choice and responsibility to respond well or poorly to being wounded.

Anyone struggling in their faith because of hard times, conflict, or negative church experiences, should read this.

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