This review gives me another chance to simply say: “I love the Church!” I truly love the Body of Christ and love the Church. This book is one I need to put on my list and get!

This quote is a good one:

We need to be reminded that:

there is no language in Scripture about Christians building the kingdom. The New Testament, in talking about the kingdom, uses verbs like enter, seek, announce, see, receive, look, come into, and inherit. … We are given the kingdom and brought into the kingdom. We testify about it, pray for it to come, and by faith it belongs to us. But in the New Testament, we are never the ones who bring the kingdom. (49)

The review is a great synopsis and offers a challenge to the view that everything is wrong with “organized religion.” It’s a good shot at McLaren’s new book, Everything Must Change.