Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

Hard hitting book from a truthful biblical man of God, this book will drive seeker friendly churches nuts.

[Review from goodreads, 9 January, 2025] It's hard to review this book because so much of it resonates with my heart for the church. Nevertheless, it is profoundly problematic. The arguments and views, which are largely right and desperately needed, are saturated in anti-intellectual, fundamentalistic, simplistic forms of thought that undermine his points. Or to put it another way, his epistemology is flatly unbiblical. So, for instance, when he pits psychology against Scripture, he hasn't given insight, only a false dichotomy. But he makes these sort of MacArthuristic cheap shots a lot. Which undermines his good intent and his obvious heart for the church. And it would be one thing if this were just wrong. But it's worse. It's wrong in a way that has helped steer the USA onto this mad, careening route it's currently taking where Christian Nationalism is viewed as a Christian doctrine and harnessed to empower a wanna-be dictator who this week is casually discussing annexing other countries as if that weren't the dangerous and perverted attitude of Putin... or Hitler. So it's a lot of really good stuff. Rooted in solid theology. Mixed with some really wrong thinking. And resulting in real harm.