Thirty years ago, Reece Roth was given a
prophecy: “there will come a day when you
will train them—they will be four. The song, the teacher, the leader, the
temple.” That day has now come, and Reece, along with Marcus Amber, Dana
Raine, Brandon Scott, and Tamera Miller, are scheduled to go on a retreat
together. Before they leave, Reece instructs the four to read the gospels and
the book of Acts, and watch a movie - The Matrix.
Once on their retreat, Reese shares with the
others some of the things he has learnt on his Christian walk. This is heavy,
serious, spiritual stuff that threatens to break the four out of their everyday
Christianity as they work together to get to know each other and break down
spiritual barriers.
Jim Rubart is the award-winning author of Rooms, Book of Days and The Chair, and from reading Soul’s Gate, I can see why. Soul's Gate is a story of freedom in Christ, with a strong emphasis on the
spiritual battles that sometimes must be fought for that freedom. While Soul's Gate finishes the story, the ending makes it equally clear that this is only
the start of the journey for the four warriors, just as this is the first book
in what I hope is planned to be a series.
This is not comfortable Christian fiction.
The reader of Amish romance who occasionally branches out into a Western
romance or a Love Inspired title is not going to enjoy Soul's Gate. But the
reader who wants something a bit more challenging and who can deal with a bit
of the "woo-woo demons and angels" stuff while find this book worth
reading, if only to debate which aspects are fiction and which just might be
true. Recommended.
Thanks to Thomas Nelson and Netgalley for providing
a free ebook for review. You can find out more about James L Rubart at his
website.
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