The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

The Truth War

I just finished reading John MacArthur's book, The Truth War. Pretty decent read. It isn't heavy reading, a far easier read than The Courage to Be Protestant which I am still working through. His writing is like his preaching: straightforward, not fancy, right to the point and hard hitting. Brian McLaren is the only individual he really names very often but his feelings about the entire emergent movement are pretty clear.

I really liked one of his analogies near the end of the book. He compared the modern church with Western Civilization. We know that there are terrorist among us, but out of fear of seeming judgmental or mean we refuse to take the steps to keep terrorists out or to root them out once they are in. And those who pervert the Word of God, who water down the Gospel, no matter how well-meaning they may be, are spiritual terrorists who oppose God and put His Son to shame. But many churches, out of a misplaced desire to get along for the sake of "Christian unity" will tolerate all manner of foolishness rather than take a stand.

All in all a worthwhile read. Nothing really new here, and it has a bit of preaching to the choir to it, but his clarion call should help to jar a generally apathetic church into contention for the truth.

Now if he would just rethink that whole dispensationalism thing...