Cling: Choosing a Lifestyle of Intimacy with God by Kim Cash Tate

Cling by Kim Cash Tate

• Print Length: 192 pages
• Publisher: Discovery House (February 28, 2017)

I'm always excited to read hot-off-the-press Christian nonfiction. Kim Cash Tate, who's written Christian fiction, has branched out into Christian nonfiction with this new book. In it, she highlights scriptures that command believers to cling to God: 

Deut. 10:20

Deut. 13:4

She then goes through familiar territory, writing about how we were created to cling, but separated ourselves from Him through the fall. She talks about Christ's mission to redeem us. 

Around 25% into the book, she finally launches into what it means to cling to God, choosing a lifestyle of intimacy with Him. 

Weaving personal stories, current events and especially Bible stories, she shows us people who have successfully clung to God. She uses many good illustrations (particularly the Biblical ones!), but I confess that after having read so much of the best of Christian nonfiction over the past couple of years, I didn't find much in this book that shed new light on scripture, or made me look at something differently. 

It was written well enough, but I didn't detect any flashes of sheer brilliance that made me sit back and think for a while about what she'd said. 

The only chapter that presented an idea that I hadn't come across in all my reading was the chapter entitled Healing from Immoral Clinging. 

It's a chapter on varieties of sexual sin, including premarital sex between believers. 

She then gives the reader reassurance that if we confess our sins (and walk away from them), God will, of course, forgive them.

The book came with a study guide at the end. I suspect that it will be used and enjoyed by home groups. It will deliver enough of what the group needs in order to make a good class, if not an astoundingly thought provoking one. And that's probably just fine. 

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.