Book Review: So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore

By Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman

Fiction

This book probes deeper into what exactly is "The Church" is it a social club you visit on Sunday or is it a community of people set on following Jesus and caring for one another. The authors of this book also where also collaborators and editors credited to William P Young's soul searching and heart awakening best selling novel "The Shack". So their ability to render thought provoking Christ inspired writings is obviously their God given talent and profession.

The story starts with Jake a middle aged family man with everything going for him great real estate business he's also a bigwig Associate Pastor at his local church. Then Jake meets John a man who seems to have no problem with sharing "The Jesus he knows" with any person in need or even to settle a heated rally between conflicting churches in a shopping mall. Jake starts to wonder if this John fellow is possibly an original disciple of Christ still walking the Earth since he speaks of Jesus as if he actually knew him and even talked and learned personally from Christ.

Jake thinks of the Bible Verse from John 21:22-23 (22 Jesus replied, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You follow me." 23 So the rumor spread among the community of believers that that disciple wouldn't die. But that isn't what Jesus said at all. He only said, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?")

John intrigues Jake to truly test his faith that Christ is all he has over months of conversations and odd encounters.

Then Jakes world slowly crumbles through out the book as he looses his career and his social and professional standing at the local church. Eventually Jake starts to loath John, but John comes and goes in the story as he travels about as a "handy man or carpenter". Jake slowly comes to rely on his faith more than his own doings as he encounters Christ with a passion he thought was lost long ago.

I recommend this book to anyone who has felt disillusioned or even hurt with church in the past and has questions to a true relationship with God.

I truly think the publisher Windblown Media has been blessed to put out some amazing "Fiction ional" books over the past few years that are truly reaching out and healing believers lost relationships with Jesus.

This book is a must read.