Right Thinking in a Church Gone Astray: Finding Our Way Back to Biblical Truth

by Nathan Busenitz (editor)

Keeping the Church on Track in a Secular World

One of the greatest challenges to Christianity today is the pervasive influence popular culture has on the church. When Christians embrace a secular worldview, it causes division within the church and greatly diminishes its impact.

Right Thinking in a Church Gone Astray offers responses from trusted evangelical voices on 20 timely issues. With a careful look at God's Word, you'll gain wisdom and insights on highly relevant topics such as...


countering the church's celebrity culture
ministering to the "Me Generation"
discovering where science meets Scripture
responding appropriately to homosexuality
reclaiming the essentials of the Christian faith
With biblical guidance on these and other controversial matters, this resource provides much-needed clarity for today's church.

Genres: Christian

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

NATHAN BUSENITZ, (M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D., The Master's Seminary) is the Dean of Faculty and Assistant Professor of Theology at The Master's Seminary. He holds a doctorate in church history, with a specific focus on patristic theology. He has served as a full-time member of the pastoral staff at Grace Community Church, director of the Shepherd's Fellowship, managing editor of Pulpit magazine, and as the personal assistant to John MacArthur.

Reviews

[Rodney Hall · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are many great things about this book. It provides some great teaching and solid Biblical guidelines for living. Just be warned if you are Armenian and/or Pentecostal in background you will have to endure the typical diatribe of “you’re not as perfect as we are” that so often accompanies teaching from this camp.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with many of the criticisms about some high profile preachers. But most of us do not fit into that camp. 1/2 billion Christians, many of whom suffer for their faith regularly should not be treated with such disdain and prideful dismissal. You would think they would see some of the logs in their own eyes of late. Neither can our doctrines be so easily disregarded with strategic placement of straw men and cyclical arguments.

I do indeed understand, and share many of the concerns, but would encourage my brothers and sisters in this camp to be a little less prideful and critical and instead look for ways we can work together for the cause of Christ. As the author states, not every disagreement is heresy.

Despite my irritations, 85% of this book is right on target and worth a read.

[Justin Poe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Right Thinking in a Church Gone Astray is a much needed book for the times. This is a "compilation" book where numerous authors wrote individual chapters on topics concerning the evangelical church today. Some of the more known topics would be prosperity preaching, homosexuality and how a church should handle this issue, a chapter on the heresy of Jesus Calling, Rock Star Religion, ect.

Some of the lesser known topics addressed are Compassion Without Compromise, spreading the gospel worldwide and equipping missionaries, and the charismatic controversy.

All in all this is well worth the read even though I found some of the chapters to be a bit dry. Good insight into issues facing the modern church.

The collaboration of authors come from the evangelical world with a forward by John MacArthur.

[Chase Dunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book and helpful in areas. In my opinion, the first section of the book was the most helpful. There is some irony in the book as it pertains to some of the contributing authors, but overall I would recommend this as a fairly baseline level resource. There are more helpful books, but perhaps the accessibility of this volume and the array of perspectives in authors makes this an easy and beneficial read.

[Sergiu S. Dobre · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent book and a must read for any and every serious Christian!

[Janelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good. They tackled a lot of tough topics biblically.

[Jamie Pearce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this. Lots of Good thinking to consider on the church, missions, spiritual gifts and how we live as believers.

[Blake · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fairly good, insightful read, covering various topics such as the church's celebrity culture, how to respond biblically to homosexuality, taking back essential elements of the Christian faith, how to measure true success in one's ministry, an evaluation of the current missions movement, and a focus on the ultimate priority of the church.
I enjoyed reading various authors, given that it is human nature to gravitate towards certain style of writings, thus, the book gives an exposure to many different styles of writing. As is typical with anything that is edited by Nathan Busenitz, the book is a theologically sound books and offers great insight to many areas of ministry. I encourage all believers to read the book, especially those in leadership.