May honors Nesbit

Harding's new College of Pharmacy faculty is featured in May's Faculty Favorite. Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Dr. James Nesbit is often seen on the front lawn reading his Bible or in deep discussion with students. For May, Nesbit selected a Christian classic, Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee. When asked why he recommended the book, Nesbit replied,

What book do you buy the person who has read EVERYTHING?” My answer is “The Spiritual Man” by Watchman Nee. I was given this book to read at a time when I had many questions about what it meant to walk in the Spirit. At the time, the answers I received were generally the standard responses which were very unsatisfying to me. In light of what I was reading in the Scriptures, I had trouble believing that Holy Spirit did not operate in all believers. At the same time, I equally had problems with many of the canned charismatic evidences that seemed more like “entertainment” than born of the nature of Christ. This book is the clearest, most thorough and most compelling treatise about walking in the Spirit that I have ever read. It broke down many of my preconceived notions about what it meant to be “spiritual” and it enlightened me as to the possibilities of how the Spirit works. I have never been the same since reading it. However, it is not a book you get through, it a book you survive by being transformed in the process. This is a book that will either turn a person’s life upside down or it will kill you…or maybe both.