So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore | Wayne Jacobsen, Dave Coleman

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore | Wayne Jacobsen, Dave Coleman | This Will Cause You To Rethink How Christ Called You To Live! Riveting!!!

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	So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore Wayne Jacobsen, Dave Coleman Windblown Media, 2006 - 191 pages average customer review:based on 49 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This book says it all!

This book reaches anyone who has been lost or defeated by church-i-ness.It is for any church goer who has not fit in anywhere because of all the phoniness of the place. It reemphasizes that we are the church...we who are broken and betrayed and just find it very difficult to put on a happy face. An excellent read. I recommend it to people who have endured a lot of suffering in their lives and tried to find solace in the church. Your peace is in Christ alone.

This Will Cause You To Rethink How Christ Called You To Live! Riveting!!!

This is one of the best books I've ever read!!! One of the charachters, John, is constantly asking the hard questions. Through John and Jake's many conversations about real life I began to realize the importance of true fellowship, not busyness in some building. I go to church, this book doesn't tell you not to go, but it does challenge you as to why you go, and why you do the things you do in the church and the body. This is well worth the read, inspiring!

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So you don't want to go to church

The book arrived very quickly, way before I expected it, so kudo's to Amazon!

Re the book, I haven't read it yet, it's the August read for our church women's group.

A Mixed Bag

There is much in this book that I admire. Any book that teaches that we should focus on a strong, abiding faith and trust in God cannot be a very bad book. I was very moved by some of the passages in this book, and I believe many other Christians will be moved as well.
As a corrective to the word-faith gospel this book is excellent. It clearly teaches that God does not answer to us, we answer to Him. I greatly admire anyone who is willing to tell people that God has not chosen to make all Christians wealthy.
My first problem with the book is that it portrays a church that is full of spiritually immature people. The Pastor, the elders, the assistant Pastor, and all of the parishioners seem to be a group of self centered louts. Are there no people who attend a church who actually love their neighbors?
The reason that I cannot give a higher rating than 3 stars is that I have grave reservations about the overarching message of the book, that the church should be avoided. This book seems to advocate Christianity as a religion best practiced alone, or in small groups. Of course that is an aspect of the faith, but the New Testament is full of instructions for the running of the local church as a body of believers. Acts 20:28 tells those who were made "overseers" of the flock that they were apointed by the Holy Spirit. This book seem to take the view that there should not be overseers at all. Read the whole of the Bible, particularly the New Testament before agreeing to the premises of any book.
The biggest problem that I have with this book is that it seems to be teaching that becuase the church is full of hypocrites that we should abandon it. How are the spiritually immature supposed to learn from the "spiritually elite" that are separating from the church?
A good, but flawed book.

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