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    Route 66: A Crash Course in Navigating Life With the Bible

    By Krish Kandiah

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    The intention of this book is to teach Christians how to use the Bible to live well. It has eight sections - living faithfully, distinctively, emotionally, imaginatively, discerningly, purposefully, infectiously and hopefully. Each provides an introduction to a different kind of literature within the Bible and follows with questions for discussion and five days of daily readings. The material is ideal for group use and the plan is to publish both single copies and a discounted pack of five. A separate supporting DVD will be produced by Elevation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMonarch Books
    Release dateApr 22, 2011
    ISBN9780857211095
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    Route 66: A Crash Course in Navigating Life With the Bible
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    Krish Kandiah

    Dr Krish Kandiah is the founding director of Home For Good, a young charity seeking to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children by finding loving homes for children in the care system. He is an advocate for fostering and adoption. Dr Kandiah has been published in the Times of London and The Guardian, and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 2. He has written 13 books. His Monarch books include: Only the Brave, Back to the Source, Route 66, and Life Swap. Dr Kandiah holds degrees in Chemistry, Missiology and Theology. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and 7 children.

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    • 4/5
      Route 66: A Crash Course in Navigating Life with the Bible is essentially an eight-week Bible study guide. The main argument of the book is that reading the Bible should be a journey that is transformational, is applicable to everyday life, and inspires us to put theory into practice. What I like about it is that author Krish Kandiah breaks down the Bible into eight genres, and discusses how properly to read, interpret and apply truths found in each genre. In other words, what Kandiah is really doing with this book is laying out, in layman's terms, the basics of biblical interpretation. I think he does quite a good job with this, and it would make for a great introduction to the subject for a person or small group.
    • 5/5
      Most people settle for reading the Bible in a year. Seems like every Bible-related website has a plan. So how do you go one better on that? Krish Kandiah’s “crash course in navigating life with the Bible” has an 8-week plan, complete with study guide, discussion questions and prompts for a “travel journal.”Route 66 uses travel/car metaphors to guide the reader through the Bible. The original Route 66 is the famous “main street of America,” the historic highway from Detroit to Los Angeles, John Steinbeck’s “Mother Road.” The metaphor is useful for a journey that the author hopes will be life-changing. Route 66 is a book on hermeneutics, for people who have never heard of hermaneutics, and probably don’t care. For students of the Bible, the easiest explanation is that it is a light version of Fee and Stewart’s How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. That’s not to say it’s unworthy. It’s written for a different audience. An audience who may have little or no previous exposure to the Bible, who are curious enough about it to take on an 8-week challenge to discover what it’s all about.In 8 weeks, there are discussions of 8 Biblical genres, and how to read them and make sense of them. There’s a brief reading for each day of each week, focusing on specific aspects of the genre in question. Each reading has questions to be responded to in a “travel journal,” and each week ends with a suggested small group study. As one might expect in such a book, difficult questions get a mention and a nod, but hardly enough discussion. For example, in the reading on Leviticus, Kandiah suggests that there are three different kinds of laws: [obsolete] Civil Laws, [obsolete] Ceremonial Laws, and [eternal] Moral Laws. “In practice,” he says, “the laws don’t always fit neatly into each category… The Old Testament itself gives no hint of any such distinctions.” He then invites readers to use these categories to categorize the laws in Leviticus chapter 19. Too neat, too quick, and hardly fair to the reader, especially a novice in Bible studies.Of course, it’s not intended to be a theological treatise, rather a “crash course.” Any author attempting to introduce the subject matter of the Bible in less than 200 pages is bound to gloss over a few things. The idea is to get people reading the Bible and contemplating it. If they get past the first hurdle (actually reading it), they presumably have more time to contemplate more difficult questions at their own leisure. I described this book as “Fee and Stuart light” to one of my friends, and he asked whether Kandiah takes a higher view (than Fee and Stuart did) of the Old Testament. Given the limitations of a brief introduction, Kandiah seems always to explain the Old Testament in terms of Jesus Christ. Some things point to Christ; others pre-figure Christ; others are fulfilled by Christ. It is perhaps simplistic, but it is a starting place. As a Sunday-school teacher, I find the book intriguing. As I read it, I tried to imagine how I would deal with a class who met once a week to discuss the material, as suggested. I’m not sure whether Kandiah has given me too much material, or too little. Certainly I will be using this little book as a resource; and perhaps I will try an 8 week crash course.
    • 4/5
      “For many of us, there is a disconnect between the Bible we know we should treasure and the book we struggle to read. On the one hand, we know the Bible is a lamp to our feet, honey on our lips, the sword of the Spirit, and given to equip us for every good work. But sometimes the Bible feels more like a bizarre collection of ancient texts filled with obscure laws, irrelevant genealogies and incomprehensible prophecies with a few nuggets of wisdom, timeless stories and comforting promises mixed in” (Route 66, 7)Been there, done that? Most Christians today (at least, in my context) would likely say, ‘Yes.’ What is the reason for this? Part of it is surely spiritual—we aren’t as mature as we should be and the flesh fights against any desire to “take up and read” God’s word. But another part of is also an understanding of the Bible itself. Numerous studies have shown that biblical illiteracy seems to rise with every generation. That means we aren’t just struggling to read the Bible, we’re also forgetting how to read the Bible.This is where Route 66 can help. The book’s subtitle explains how it will help: “A crash course in navigating life with the Bible.” The author, Krish Kandiah, wants to help Christians get the picture of the Bible. Like a road map, showing the major highways and byways of the biblical landscape, Route 66, gives readers an orientation to the Bible that does more than just instruct; it is designed to get them on the road. In fact, this is where many of the analogies and illustrations come from in the book—driving. Thus, Route 66 is not so much about the famous highway, but the sixty-six books that make up the Christian Scriptures. And more than just reading, the author wants to you to know how to read in such a way that your life is changed.This overview comes by organizing the biblical books into eight sections, according to their literary genre: narrative, law, the psalms, wisdom writings, the prophets, the gospels, the epistles, and revelation. Each of these groups has five days worth of short devotionals that help explain how to read that kind of biblical literature. For example, the section on narrative explains the effect those stories are supposed to have on us, how we should move from the there and then to the here and now, that we should keep one eye on the text and other on Christ as we read, how to discover why God put to the story in the Bible, and why we should read narrative to build up a long-term appetite for the Bible.There are many positive things I could say about this book. Though, Kandiah has set for himself a huge task in surveying the Bible, he succeeds pretty well. He seems to be hit all of the essential elements of interpretation and application, even offering a nuanced explanation of applying the Old Testament law (in three pages!). Not only is the content good, but the reading exercises designed for people to put into practice about what they’re reading have well-chosen passages and good study questions.Even the way the book is written is good—Kandiah is an engaging, clear writer. However, this might be good or bad. What, for me, is probably one of the book’s greatest strengths could be a negative for others. I am a big Anglophile and the author is clearly a citizen of the realm. That means some of his illustrations and wit are thoroughly British. I found this to be no problem (more than that, I enjoyed it!), but some others may find it less accessible. That being said, context makes even the oddest new vocabulary word understandable.Any outright negative might be the reading program the author advocates at the end: reading the whole Bible in eight weeks. Granted, he does all he can to make it seem attainable. Kandiah is clear that we should read the Bible in more than one way. There is a kind of ‘overview reading’ that should be done—just reading the Bible like any other book, getting the storyline and the lay of the land as to its theology. Beyond that, there is a more meditative, study-type reading that allows us to drill down deep. Obviously, he is expecting the first approach for the eight week schedule. He also wants people to look at the length of the Bible compared to other books—not much bigger than a hardcover bestseller. But even with the short, introductory helps it may be a big task for those who aren’t strong readers. If nothing else, there will be a mind-set that needs to be broken about whether or not it could be done.To sum up, this book should undoubtedly have a wide audience. It is designed to be used by individuals or small groups, and could easily be integrated into an eight-week sermon series so an entire church could go through it together (get free resources to go with the book). I think Route 66 will be a help for those who want to do what they knew they should do: read and be changed by God’s Word.*Note: I received this book for review from the publisher. However, this didn’t affect the content of the review.
    • 3/5
      Krish Kandiah ventured forth on an audacious undertaking with Route 66. He offers a roadmap for an 8-week journey through the entire Bible, calling attention to highpoints in eight sections (or genres) of Scripture -- narrative literature, law, psalms, wisdom literature, prophecy, the gospels, the epistles, and apocalyptic literature (limited here to Revelation). Each section of the book offers five brief readings along with recommended readings of huge chunks of the Bible (huge, that is, if one is to follow the schedule that gets all the way through the Bible in eight weeks).Without the Bible readings, the undertaking is superficial at best because it is impossible to summarize hundreds of pages of Scripture in such a short space. In the scant pages available, the author sought to create his own interest and inspiration through illustrations more than he tried to enlighten the reader's understanding of the inspiration given by the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures themselves. One is left with the conclusion that this is much too big a bite to be chewed and digested in such limited space. We might compare it to a gourmet attempting to guide a novice through eight great cuisines by offering only a single bite from each sumptuously-spread table. The experience is more frustrating than it is fulfilling.A better approach for this kind of study would be combining one of several good introductory guides to the books of the Bible with reading of the text of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Without being under an unreasonably-demanding timetable, one could make his or her way through the sixty-six books at a consistent pace and find it to be a rewarding and highly-educational experience. At its best, Route 66 whets a reader's appetite for such a study. It has value if it motivates a novice reader of the Bible to explore more fully and drink more deeply from the living water God has given to those who have a thirst for it.
    • 5/5
      Krish Kandiah starts this book off with an analogy that I think perfectly illustrates one problem in American Christianity. He tells of backing over his laptop case (mistaking it for a snowdrift). “[T]here are certain advantages to flattening things,” he says, noting that it makes packing easier, is kinder on the environment, etc. “But flattening can also mean that the purpose, functionality, and shear beauty of things get utterly and fatally destroyed.”Kandiah notes that we often do this to the Bible. I say “we” because I’m talking about preachers and teachers, and I am both at various times. I’m sure that I’ve done this without realizing it. We approach Scripture with a goal to wring a 30-minute, 3-point sermon out of a passage. We often approach Scripture with a topic already in mind, and simply seek a passage, verse, or even part of a verse that will serve as a jumping-off point for our rant against our favorite pet peeve. And this makes it easy to transport and pack, but it destroys the purpose, functionality, and beauty of God’s Word.The purpose of Route 66 is to help all of us (and now “us” is all Christians) to understand the Bible as a book of books, unified in purpose and theme but diverse in style. Kandiah takes eight different literary genres (narrative, law, psalms, wisdom, prophetic, gospels, epistles, and apocalyptic) and examines how each is used in the Bible — and what impact it has on how we should approach the text.I like this hermeneutical approach; I think it is far more honest with Scriptures. If we believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant word of God, then we have to look not only at what He inspired to be written, but how He inspired it to be written. He used poetry, history, narrative, etc. for a reason, and we are being dishonest if we ignore the literary genre just because it doesn’t fit in with our own preconceptions of a passage.More importantly, Kandiah takes each of these genres and shows how the Bible uses it to make the passages relevant for our lives today. We really are “navigating life with the Bible.” We see the Bible as a book that had meaning for the people who wrote it and first read it, AND as a book that has meaning for us today, because of how it was written. Rather than flatten the Bible out so it fits the container we want to put it in, the Bible is allowed to be the book God intended it to be in the first place.
    • 5/5
      First let me say that I love the way this book is organized. The author divided the Bible into 8 different genres (the narrative literature, the law, the psalms, the wisdom literature, the prophets, the gospels, the epistles, and the apocalyptic literature). As an English major, I was excited to look at the Bible in this way. I had never tried it before. I also am amazed by how much teaching was compacted into less than 200 pages. Crash course is a very accurate description. The author includes material for individual study, group study, and church study. I appreciated the way this book was written. It could have been very didactic and dull, but Kandiah’s experience as a teacher and writer shined through. He used examples from everyday life to explain complicated Biblical principals and I had a lot of “AHA” moments. The book is meant to be an eight-week study whereas I read it straight through in order to review it in time for the blog tour. I want to sink my teeth into this book and really study it. There is a lot of good stuff in here and Kandiah is a wise as well as entertaining teacher.
    • 4/5
      The daily reading segments are short so easily read. Although the driving/road metaphor is stretched a bit too far at times (the same information could be discussed and make more sense without involving the metaphor), the questions at the end of each day were more thought-provoking than in most short studies, and helped me consider the Biblical text more deeply than I would have by just reading it. A very good resource for daily devotions in limited time (15-30 min).
    • 4/5
      This is a basic introduction to the literary styles in the Bible. it is not going to win any awards for being the most scholarly or in-depth survey of the Bible, but it provides some basic concepts. It is designed as a daily Bible study that can be used in a small group setting with questions at the end of each chapter.
    • 5/5
      This book is a gem! Unlike many other authors who seem determined to lead one’s reading through the Bible with the finesse of taking a dose of castor oil, Kandiah does so in a likable and light manner. He does so by approaching it from a different perspective, not entirely novel, yet sufficiently fresh as to maintain the readers interest from start to finish. Kandiah parses the Bible into ‘approaches to life’ which correspond with the genres usually associated with biblical categorizations. Each approach is presented as a week’s study. The approaches are Living Faithfully (the narrative literature), Living Distinctively (the law), Living Poetically (the psalms), Living Discerningly (the wisdom literature), Living Prophetically (the prophets), Living Infectiously (the gospels), Living Purposefully (the epistles) and Living Hopefully (the apocalyptic literature). The week is further broken down into five days with brief interrogatories at the end of each and a more in depth small group guide at the end of the week.The presentation is light but the content is scholastically sound. Many cites are unfamiliar to me – popular movies, for example, but at least one reference to N.T. Wright gave credence to it all. (Curiously, Kandiah attributed it to “Tom Wright”, whereas Wright utilizes that appellation to his popular books yet the reference was to one of his more profound academic works.)As a unifying thread or theme, Kandiah likens the journey through the bible as a road trip down US Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles. It is an apt metaphor in that the bible is comprised of sixty-six books but it leads to a bit of an incongruity in that Route 66 no longer exists as a continuous highway, a point that the author acknowledges on the last day of the study. To his credit, Kandiah does not let this theme overwhelm the book’s message and this incongruity can pass almost unknowingly except for the points to be discussed later.The book is multilayered. A quick read sufficient for the purpose of this review conveys its content and structure. Digging into the text and following the footnote references provides a second tier; delving into the ‘Travel Journal’ at the end of the day and answering the questions asked provides another; doing the small group exercises at the end of the week adds yet another and, the eight week bible reading guide caps it off. A metaphor that came to mind and which was employed to a limited extent by Kandiah in small group study 6 is that of an international smorgasbord with each week being a different cuisine, Italian one week, Thai another and so on. A quick read gives a description of the cuisine and a whiff of its aroma, the travel journal permits you to take a taste of each day’s course and the small group study allows you to sit at table worship with friends or family. The gourmand can go from this book directly to the bible and eat his or her way from Genesis to Revelation taking each plate in order regardless if it is dessert or appetizer.Taking this food metaphor a little further gives a glimpse into a wisp of criticism. Regardless of his ethnic heritage, Kandiah is an Englishman in all endearing respects. His English culture shines through on every page in the idioms he employs, his phraseology, his ‘colourful’ (sic) spelling, and even his self-deprecating humour (sic again). This usage of an ‘every man’ (or ‘every Englishman’) approach brings bible study down to a common man elevation and adds spice to each recipe, but, alas, all cultures and all of us have preferences and aversions to some herbs and spices. One either likes curry or one does not and there seems to be scant room for indifference. I tripped over some of his terms. ‘SatNav’ I could mentally translate as ‘GPS Unit’; with the help of my daughter, a Harwich resident, I came to realize that a caravan was an RV or camper and not a string of camels trekking across the moors nor a convoy of semis; the numerous sport team references went completely over my head, but, when I reached Day 5 of Week 7, I encountered an idiom that can only be categorized as a gaffe. It is entitled “Pimp my ride”. To this point I felt the English phraseology gave the work a quaint “Vicar of Dibley” aura albeit with reverence. Pimping ones ride, however, took my imagination to places I did not want to go. If, as I suspect from the book’s title, an American market was a secondary target (evangelism is undoubtedly Kandiah’s prime objective) the book would have profited from an editor on this side of the Atlantic. We Yanks prefer not to pimp for anything. There is, however, a plus side to the forgoing. By taking the bible student out of one’s comfort zone and into a foreign culture is exactly the sort of challenge faced by Paul and our other church fathers. Personally, I sometimes refer from a modern translation back to the King James’ version for exactly the same reason, it adds a different and more objective perspective. Trip, if you must, over the English but savor the value of this book as a whole.