Help Lord, The Devil wants me fat!

I didn't know he wrote THAT. Figures.

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~Jay~
Husband of ENS, father of J II. | Indian Trail, NC
Currently disabled due to health issues
Communicant Member, Precentor | Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte, NC | Presbyterian Reformed Church

I can't remember the title of the book I read in late 60's, but it was something like Evangelism Made Easy. The book tells how to manipulate people in making a decision for Christ. It actually gave step-by-step instructions on every little thing to do. I'd been a Christian for only a few years but I knew even at the time is was horrible.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
“One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.” --- Dr. John Piper

Isn't that the book where hell is shaped in the form of a body of a man?

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R. Martin Snyder
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Harmony Baptist Church (Member)
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"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."
William Symington

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ANYTHING by Joyce Meyer or Kenneth Copeland.

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Jim Ulam
Bethany Bible Fellowship (Non-denominational)
Westminster, CA

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put" - Winston Churchill

Yuck. I had to read it because a parishoner asked my opinion. It was poorly written and very confusing? What exactly is the author's intention? I really don't understand what all the hoopla is about.

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http://www.villagecommunitychurch.org/

The Emotionally Healthy Church by Peter Scazzaro. The ultimate work for the modern "therapy gospel".

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Scott Kessler
Covenant Community OPC
Staunton, VA
Covenant Theology
Christian Skepticism
Christianity In History

Your Best Life Now. Before I come under discipline for this lapse in judgment, I want to say that I started it, couldn't bear it, and burnt it in my front yard. Needless to say, the smoke didn't rise skyward...

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Kevin
Far East
Deacon, Int'l Church

I hate to say it, but after finishing Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll, this has to be in my top 4.

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Andrew Clerebout
Joy Baptist Church, IFB (Westland, MI)

www.animalfarmblog.com
^Nick Altman's blog

The last couple of books by Stuart Woods, what happened to this guy? His stories are always over the top and ridiculous, but his last book was pure drivel.

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J. M. - Baptist - Ontario, Canada -

Feileadh Mor
The Orthodox Catechism

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http://www.villagecommunitychurch.org/

I've read the "Search for the Historical Jesus" guys and I have to say they are a complete waste of time.

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Reverend David Chen
Faith Hope Love Chinese Church
Havertown, PA

1. Dispensatonalism Today-Charles Ryrie
2. The Holy Spirit- Charles Ryrie
3. A New Kind of Christian- Brian McLaren
4. Who Needs Theology?- Roger Olsen and Stan Grenz
5. God's Blueprint For the Church- Kenneth Good

I attended an undergraduate institution where all of these books were required readings at one point or another. Ryrie's books consitute my top choices. His Childish grammar, bad syntax, historical revision, logical fallacies, hermeneutical gymnastics, and strawman argumentation put him at the top of the list.

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Jordan Harris
Dickson City, PA
Faith Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP)
My Blog

LOL

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~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

OH! I had to commiserate with you on this one. UGHUGHUGH!!

I have a love-hate relationship with bad books. I tend to groan my way through them, but I can't put them down. It's like a literary MST3K.

Andrew Murray is pretty stinky.

And those Left Behind books were pivotal in making me see dispensationalism for what it's worth. I threw away my adherence to that system when I threw the last book in a truck stop trash can.

But right now, the worst book I've read in the recent past is

Changed Into His Image

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by Jim Berg. Long story, but that is one bad book!

C

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Camille
Member, Mitchell Road Presbyterian, PCA
Taylors, SC

A few months ago I started reading Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. I had to stop reading it about 1/3 way through due to horrible content. I liked the story, and the themes, but the content was too sexually explicit for me to wade through anymore. So, it's the worst book I've read recently... on the whole, I avoid bad books.

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Jacob
Sovereign Grace Ministries
Covenant Fellowship Church
West Chester, PA

"Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace." ~ John Owen
Blog - The Strasbourg Inn

A Cry In The Wilderness - Keith Green
The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith
Charles Finney On Faith

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Charles Plauger
Member/Grace Reformed Church
Oakland, MD

John Eldridge's Wild At Heart.
While the wider Reformed and Conservative audience deride and lampoon Eldridge's book, what the wider Reformed and Conservative audience do not know are the seminary scholars and theologians who were the ones laying the bad doctrinal seeds. In many cases, bad doctrine doesn't start with the author or pastor, but starts with the seminary professor. And in Eldridge's case, and in the case for Wild At Heart, this would be a former GGBTS and Fuller Seminary professor, James William McClendon. His 3-volume Systematic Theology, in my opinion, is a must-read for pastors, scholars, and serious laymen who want to understand the premise and arguments from "the other side."

James William McClendon is also the doctrinal founder to shape and influence Brian McLaren. McClendon's work also shaped Grenz to change his theology. (Any work by Stanley Grenz prior to 1993 are solid works. But starting in 1993, Grenz's theology started following McClendon's line of thought).

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Will Shin
Rockville, MD

Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge

Such a disappointing read. It made the Proverbs 31 woman seem so unattainable for a Christian woman.

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Ann Marie Farley
Member of Wilderness Road Baptist Assembly
Dublin, VA.

Favour is deceitful; and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 31:30

I have to agree with Mr. Shin and Miss Ann concerning Eldredge.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC, Attending CCRPC. My Blog
The Puritan Pub (Team Blog)
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I just finished reading it. Besides Pilgrim's Progress, it is the only Christian fiction book I've ever read. I don't think it would have been half as bad if Young (or Mac) wasn't claiming that the story was true.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

I should also further note that McClendon is the prelude to the Emergent Movement. Even Justin Taylor mentions in Reclaiming The Center that McClendon is the theologian while McLaren is the pastor of the Emergent Movement.

This is why I mentioned in another post that bad doctrine is never isolated. If you trace it back by 20 years, what you may discover is that there is a common founding link that McLaren, Grenz, Emerging Movement, Eldridge, Risk-Taking God, Nancey Murphy, etc. all birthed from - and that fatherly link is McClendon.