Here is a brief summary of each chapter:Ĭhapter 1: What Is the Invisible War? Ingram introduces the topic of spiritual warfare and explains why it is important for Christians to understand and engage in it. The book is divided into eight chapters, each corresponding to one of the messages. The book is based on a series of messages that Ingram delivered on his radio program Living on the Edge. The Invisible War is a book by Chip Ingram that explores the reality and nature of spiritual warfare, and how Christians can resist and overcome the attacks of Satan and his demons. It has provided some good topics for discussion and it has made people more aware of the spiritual-battle elements involved in some of the situations they face. I read the book for my small group Bible study. He warns against seeing a demon behind every corner, while promoting a heavy leaning on Scripture and biblical discernment. Those elements threatened the credibility of the book and the author ultimately, though, I think Chip Ingram provides a lot of helpful, biblical information in the book, and he clearly writes from the perspective of someone who loves God and the church, and wants Christians to see the truth of the spiritual world in which we live. And the missionaries story (which sounds like an inflated version of an account that was published in a book several years ago, and that includes actual names of the missionaries and their organization) reminds me of Christian urban legends and the things people post on Facebook without doing a two-minute Google search first to see that it's only half-true or not true at all. The Goth-demons connection might have been true for the particular people mentioned in the book, but characterizations like that can perpetuate unhelpful stereotypes even if the writer does say, once, that wearing black doesn't mean someone is influenced by demons. I was turned off a bit in the final section of the book because of too many references to people dressed in black/Goth clothing who were also into the occult or influenced by demons, and by one story about missionaries that was presented as fact (it was published in a reputable magazine, the writer says), but that has no identifying details and can't be backed up with Internet research.
This book was helpful and provided a lot of useful, biblical information about spiritual warfare.
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