AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
![]() |
Home |  Store List |  FAQ |  Contact Us |   | ||
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
![]() |
Title: Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity (Hourglass Books) by Os Guinness ISBN: 0-8010-3855-3 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: July, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Warning!
Comment: In Dining With the Devil, Guinness critiques the church-growth movement. This book is not intended to be a scholarly theological review; rather, he shares his thoughts and warnings to the churches of America as they are confronted with the issue of modernity.
Should the primary guidance of the church be internal or external? Should the church be formed by the Word or by the World? At what point does change become compromise? Should churches incorporate the managerial techniques of the business world? What are the logical ends of the church-growth movement?
Guinness addresses each of these questions, and I believe he answers them fairly. He doesn't say all church-growth is bad and the church should condemn it, nor does he say that all church-growth is good and the church should assume it. Rather, he warns his reader and gets him to think about each of these questions. What stand should we take on these issues? Read this book and find out for yourself.
Rating: 5
Summary: REQUIRED READING
Comment: Guinness paints a very grim picture of the meagchurch's accoumadtions to modernity. In the face of rising hostility from mainstream culture nobody wants to face the fact that some of our greatest church "successes" are actually just as dangerous. This reality is not one Guinness relishes or is eager to report, but the story must be told. Very concise, well-written, well-researched, thoughtful. I wish every Christian in America could read thsi book. One of the ten most importnat things I have ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: MegaAnalysis of the MegaChurch Movement
Comment: This prolific Christian writer hits home deep in this volume. The lack of discernment which exists in the church growth movement is exposed and tips given for its diagnosis and treatment as well. The pivot of the long handle of the dining implements if the devil is at the feast is so applicable! His development of the "contemporary conceit" is right on and needs to be brought out by more influential thinkers such as Guiness.
![]() |
Title: Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World by John F. MacArthur ISBN: 1581342888 Publisher: Good News Pub Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
![]() |
Title: Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance by OS Guinness ISBN: 0801012600 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
![]() |
Title: Willow Creek Seeker Services: Evaluating a New Way of Doing Church by G. A. Pritchard, Gregory A. Prichard ISBN: 0801052742 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
![]() |
Title: Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It (Hourglass Books) by OS Guinness ISBN: 0801038707 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
![]() |
Title: God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams by David F. Wells ISBN: 0802841791 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments