An Unstoppable Force

Book Review Time!

Erwin Raphael McManus "An Unstoppable Force: Daring to become the church God had intended."

Wow, I was way impressed by this book. At first I was a little put off by the writers less than humble attitude even though he had been making good points. After the second chapter the attitude changed and left me with nothing but what was intended from him. This guy has many ideas and many of them were new to me. He is a pastor in LA, at a place called Mosaic. He is, at the risk of misrepresenting him, big on reshaping what the current church is. Aiming more at Revolution over Religion. Doing so, of course, without sacrificing anything of importance. Taking a different approach to setting the hearts of the people on fire for Christ. Infusing technology and other cultures (not other beliefs) into a form of artistic, creative, inspiring, and infectious modern worship. If you are like me the discription I just mentioned might not seem appropriate or might seem risky and dangerous. I certainly agree if it every step was not done with prayer, care, and thought. I spent the first half of the book a bit un-nerved by the thought myself. Eventually, after realizing just how it was done, it made much more sence and things that were blurry to me before were more obvious now.

I could go on for quite a while about the specifics, but I'll just say it was worth reading. He has a bunch of other books out but I wont have time soon for tons of fun reading. School starts in 2 weeks.