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Title: Church: Why Bother? by Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson, Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0310243130 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11
Rating: 5
Summary: The book many Fundies would love to hate
Comment: In this work Yancey traces his Fundamentalist heritage from a conservative WASP church in Georgia, through a Bible-believing seminary in SC, to his ministry at a multicultural church in Chicago pastored by an ex-Bob Jones University grad. By applying the principle of grace in a thoroughgoing way, he shows up the discrepancies of faith and practice in many churches and colleges of the Bible Belt and brings to bear the lessons from Jesus' condescension and ministry.
Unfortunately, Yancey quotes approvingly from Roman Catholic sources and shows a lack of discernment in that area. But overall, this book's a devastating critique of American Fundamentalism in the past several decades. It promises to be a powerful tool in the reformation of a movement that began well in the 1800s-early 1900s.
Rating: 5
Summary: church why bother?
Comment: possibly the best book i've ever read. it is one i will keep and read again and again. i even bought one for a friend.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not what church is about
Comment: Yancey fills a necessary niche with those who have had experience with church which causes them to fall away and then fill a void that needs filling. However, his bottom line perspective of worship being God has an audience watching worshippers seeking His presence in their hearts is not what God seeks at all. God seeks those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. Thus, where is God in worship? In our heart? What would He want with that sin-filled, darkened, old thing? What He wants is "chesed," Hebrew word for "covenant faithfulness." Our inability totally to do "chesed" caused God to do it for us, incarnate, sacramentally in Christ. Thus, where is God for us? In the Gospel preached in its purity and distributed in the sacraments distributed according to His Testament. Yancey is yet to discover this. Maybe his void will lead him to this. Suggest Yancey and others still seeking God would read Gene Vieth's terrific spiritual journey: "The Spirituality of the Cross."
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Title: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0385502745 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: I Was Just Wondering by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0802846122 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310247306 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey ISBN: 031021436X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 28 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310245656 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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