A friend of mine gave me the book, Let Go by Fénelon. My initial reaction was that I really did not want to read it but when I saw it was written by an archbishop in France in the 17th century, my interest level changed.
My hesitation to read this book was because I have heard the expression “Let go and let God” used as an excuse for Christians to evade their responsibility. While the Bible does teach God is sovereign and controls all events on our world, it also teaches we have free will and can change our world through the actions we take.
We Christians seem to have a problem with seemingly conflicting ideas in the Bible. We go to one extreme or the other while not doing the hard work of reconciling what the Bible teaches.
We addressed one such Biblical conflict in my first book, The Renovation of Our Soul. There we examined the several different ways the Bible said we could be saved. If you don’t want to purchase my book, my blog of March 17, 2011 (yes, this blog is that old) gives several Biblical passages that illustrates this point and will start your research.
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[1] Fénelon. Let Go. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1973.
