Book Review: How Christians Can Succeed Today

Posted on October 10, 2025 
Filed under History, Resources

“In the Lord of the Rings the elves give Frodo and his fellowship a flask of Miruvor, a golden liquor which they sip in dispirited moments of biting cold and hunger. It warms and invigorates them, gives them strength for the next stretch.

Greg Sheridan’s How Christians Can Succeed Today mostly has that effect.

It was written in two parts to fortify the church as it pursues the Great Commission in a milieu resembling, in many ways, the non-Christian world into which the early church set forth. …”

– At AP, Campbell Markham is impressed and encouraged by Greg Sheridan’s new book.

At the same time, he doesn’t think the book is for everyone. See his review to discover why.

Image: Greg Sheridan interviewed by John Anderson last month.