Review: Jesus Called – He Wants His Church Back: What Christians and the American Church are Missing

Jesus Called – He Wants His Church Back: What Christians and the American Church are Missing by Ray Johnston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Johnson's book came with an intimidating, seemingly endless list of endorsements in the first few pages. The book provided an enjoyable and easy read. There was not too deep or complicated theological concepts being discussed, but rather, he takes us through a journey where I found myself agreeing with many diagnostics of the health of the church. Although primarily written to an Amercian Christian audience, it should be highly applicable to believers in other Western liberal democracies. Johnson's strength lies in his lively citations of other authors and great Christians who have lived before us. The anecdotes were almost always spot on in helping to draw a parallel to a principle he was attempting to illustrate.

If you are looking for an author who bashes the church and find yet another reason to live an anti-church Christianity, this is not the book for you. Johnston affirms his love for the church repeatedly throughout the book, and yet longs for the day the church lives up to the standard to which all believers are called to (but yet give ourselves much reason to ignore or justify a half-hearted surrender of one's will to Christ). I don't think it is possible to read this book and not engage in some serious reflection of our Christian walk thereafter...

I received this book from the Harpercollins’ Booklook Bloggers Program in exchange for this review.

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