Professor T. David Gordon is a gifted New Testament scholar and teacher.  His new book–– Choose Better: Five Biblical Models for Making Ethical Decisions––provides five very helpful concepts––imitation, law, wisdom, communion, and warfare––that can help the believer to understand and apply  biblical teachings in daily  living.  I am glad to see this book in print, and commend it to pastors, seminarians, and church leaders who wish to deepen their knowledge of Christian faith and practice.

My first exposure to Dr. Gordon’s five models was in the late 1990s when he taught the material in adult Sunday School in the church I planted, Amoskeag Presbyterian Church. I was impressed with the biblical breadth of his ethical proposal. In a world, and often a church, filled with antinomianism, the Reformed find an emphasis on the law to be a refreshingly concrete guide to the Christian life—but it is not the only guide. Gordon’s five models capture the nuances of biblical ethics and thus provide a significant aid to Christian pilgrims

In choosing to read Choose Better: Five Biblical Models for Making Ethical Decisions by T. David Gordon, the reader will have made an excellent choice toward growth in both desire and ability to live well before God and man.  If asking better questions leads to discovering better answers, then the five models of “question clusters” in Choose Better will be of great service in bringing the whole counsel of God to bear on ethics, leading beyond good decisions to better decisions.  I’m glad I made the choice to read this book, and I believe you will be glad as well. 

Choose Better is a gift to the individual Christian and the church community at large. T. David Gordon has provided his readers with an accessible and applicable model for Christian decision-making. Much of the literature for presenting ethical systems and models for choice-making are helpful to the academy but leave the layperson scratching his head for how to apply the system in real life. Not so with Choose Better! This is a fabulous contribution to the field of ethics and will serve as an invaluable resource to professors and pastors alike.

As a pastor I am often asked to help people make important choices. This book is about making good and better choices. To my knowledge this book is without equal as an explanation of the God given tools in scripture which will help people to make choices that will make a difference to themselves and others. Those tools are the "Five Biblical Models for Making Ethical Decisions" which is the subtitle of the book. I have taught them to my congregation, and I have used them in helping people make serious choices. Indeed, God has used Dr. Gordon to explain these tools in a thoughtful and practical way that should be extremely helpful to thinking Christians everywhere. One good biblical idea can transform my life, but in this book there are five great biblical ideas which have transformed my life and my ministry. May God help us all to make better biblically informed choices with this book.

B.B. Warfield wrote that next to our longing to be “in Christ” is our longing to be “like Christ.” This pithy expression regarding the imitation of Christ is one of the ethical models that T. David Gordon explores in Choose Better. Additional models are opened to us by Dr. Gordon, who provides what every valuable teacher offers. Scope. What was previously overlooked is now placed before our eyes to appreciate for its spiritual worth. This is such an important corrective for our dangerous naivete relating to spiritual warfare, and it is medicinal for our anemic hearts that have shunned Lady Wisdom’s healing embrace. For all who want a “knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,” I cannot think of a better place to start, then this compact little gem.

Professor T. David Gordon is a gifted New Testament scholar and teacher.  His new book–– Choose Better: Five Biblical Models for Making Ethical Decisions––provides five very helpful concepts––imitation, law, wisdom, communion, and warfare––that can help the believer to understand and apply  biblical teachings in daily  living.  I am glad to see this book in print, and commend it to pastors, seminarians, and church leaders who wish to deepen their knowledge of Christian faith and practice.

My first exposure to Dr. Gordon’s five models was in the late 1990s when he taught the material in adult Sunday School in the church I planted, Amoskeag Presbyterian Church. I was impressed with the biblical breadth of his ethical proposal. In a world, and often a church, filled with antinomianism, the Reformed find an emphasis on the law to be a refreshingly concrete guide to the Christian life—but it is not the only guide. Gordon’s five models capture the nuances of biblical ethics and thus provide a significant aid to Christian pilgrims