What does it mean to fully follow and abide in Christ? When you truly call Him Lord, just what are you saying? John Brenner Chandler details what a life like that entails in The Bondservant’s Life.

Chandler uses the term bondservant to describe what I’ve usually heard as being wholly devoted. I had heard of being a slave to Christ, but Chandler uses the stronger term of bondservant, which denotes a person choosing to remain a slave, and to remain with his master.

After explaining what a bondesrvant is and chooses, Chandler goes into detail about the life a bondservant of Christ lives. He talks about many aspects that our Christian lives should contain: prayer, giving, and even fasting. He tells about how we will be opposed when we try to live right, and what the destination of our lives will be.

He uses both individual verses and passages from the Bible, and focuses on people that illustrate what a bondservant is. Chandler has quotes from various other writers and teachers, and there are some of them I don’t know, and a few that I have questions about. However, the quotes he uses do not appear to be Biblically wrong as far as I can tell.

I won’t deny that this is a long book, it is one of the longest I’ve read. But it needs to be long to hold all of the information that it does. I don’t recommend trying to sit down and read it all the way through. Not because of it being long, but because you need time to think about what is written. No matter how long it takes to read it, I believe it is time well spent.

I received this book from BookCrash in exchange for this review.