"First, it assumes, and here very reasonably, I'm all in favor of this, that the Bible, as God's inspired word, is in many ways senses the primary instrument through which God works in Christian lives. Second and more controversially, the approach kind of subtly assumes that human beings are shaped above all by contact with Christian knowledge or information. We know in secular life that giving advice never works, we sort of think that because it's Christian advice, it's Bible advice. Now it's going to work."