Sunday, December 16, 2007

Book List



I just finished reading; So you don't want to go to Church anymore by Jake Colsen
(actually that's not his real name, it is a pseudonym for the combine work of Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman)
It is a fictional book, not a self help, resource book or anything like that.
I know there's a lot of people that have been hurt by the "Church". Unfortunately some Churches forget that the real Church is people going for Christ, and they start caring more about the building, the institution and how to keep "it" going.
This book is a fictional story about an Associate Pastor in a very large "successful" church, who meets a man who may or may not be John the Apostle.
This man "John" talks to the Pastor about the true Church and what Jesus really set us free from when he died on the Cross.
It is not anti church, it just reminds us to keep our focus on our relationship with God through Jesus and to not settle for being just an audience, but to be actual participants.
I really enjoyed the book, it got a little repetitive towards the end, but overall an excellent book!