Empty Baskets: Offering Your Life as Worship

by Mike Root

If Root’s three books on worship were compiled as a sermon, Empty Baskets would be the standard third point where he makes application of the principles he previous wrote about. His point, essentially, is that all of our life is to be worship to God (rather than only certain rituals at certain times in certain places being worship). And, as such, we are to be stewards of many things—not just material prosperity.

Specifically, he suggests—and expounds upon—the stewardship that we ought to have in relation to truth, the promise, gifts, glory, trust, our minds, our bodies, our souls, our cross, His church, His assembly, and our victory. Each idea receives a chapter. Essentially, this turns into a “how to live a godly life” kind of book. As such, it is okay, but not great.

Whether or not you appreciate this book will largely fall in line with whether or not you appreciated Spilt Grape Juice and Unbroken Bread. If you read it looking for heresy behind every word, you’re likely to find it and be grumpy at the end of each chapter. If you read it with an open mind, you’re likely to find some good in it that will help you in your life—even if you don’t agree with everything Root suggests.