Guest Review: “Nothing in My Hand I Bring”
Reviewed by Matt Scheffer
This is a great Aussie book by pastor Ray Galea. He grew up Maltese Roman Catholic. He then read the Bible and discovered lots of discrepancies between what the Catholic church said and what the Bible said. He understood the gospel from the Bible, then left the Catholic church.
This book describes his journey to Christ, and the painful journey out of the Catholic ‘identity’ and then what his faith in Christ means now.
The book also compares key doctrines of the Catholic church: Mary, Scripture, Salvation and the Roman Catholic Mass- and he critiques them in light of the Bible.
It is a fairly short book, some parts are quite repetitive, but he explains the gospel of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone and speaks candidly about his upbringing.
Ideal for: Christians to better understand the differences between Catholics and Protestants (And why those differences are still there today!) It is also a helpful book to give a Roman Catholic person.
