In
Life with God
, Dennis Johnson offers excerpts and prayers from Rauschenbusch's writings as daily reflections. Johnson begins with an introduction that serves as a loving tribute to Walter Rauschenbusch, offering biographical information as well as insight into the development of his theology. Then, in formatting Rauschenbusch's writing to look and read like verse, Johnson makes the ideas and themes accessible to any reader. The reflections and prayers he chose proclaim Rauschenbusch's expansive view of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Rauschenbusch wrote, "[T]hose who hold that the flower of religion can only be raised in flowerpots will have to make their reckoning with the prophets of Israel. All the world [is] God's field."
As you move through each day with the insights of Walter Rauschenbusch, may you recognize their timeliness for the current decade and strive to avoid "flowerpot religion."