Partly Wrong: Admit It. Embrace It. Live It.

by Roger Martin Jr

Partly wrong. That would be you. And me. And everyone else. Wrong ideas. Wrong choices. Wrong conclusions. Wrong attitudes. Wrong beliefs. Wrong motives. (Gee, this should be a delightful book!)

We hate being wrong. It’s embarrassing, discouraging, frustrating, and destructive. So we hide it. Ignore it. Deny it. Minimize it. Regret it. And desperately try to fix it.

After all, nothing good comes from being wrong. Partly wrong keeps us from being like Jesus and doing good in the world. God’s looking for people who’ve got it all right. Right?

But what if we’re wrong?

Part-time pastor and “partly wrong” expert, Roger Martin, champions an unusual idea. Using humorous personal stories and compelling Bible instructions, he maintains that living like we’re partly wrong makes us more humble, gracious, credible, influential, hopeful, teachable, forgiving, free and—oddly—more like Jesus! Admitting and embracing our partly wrong reality makes us better spouses, leaders, teachers, parents, friends, employees, neighbors, and sailors. Partly wrong is precisely what God uses to get us right. If we’ll let Him.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2018

Reviews

[Carrye Burr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Open the pages of this book only if you want to be stretched in your conversations, humbled in your relationships, and forced to ask yourself some hard questions about what you believe about yourself and those around you. Thankfully, author Roger Martin won't make you feel alone or ashamed of the areas where you need to grow, as he shares a plethora of humbling and even painful stories from his own partly wrong journey.

This book is incredibly timely in our generation when families, communities, and even a nation divided strongly across political, social, and religious views. The author reveals all the ways we can be wrong, misguided, missing critical information, and mistaken in our thinking. But he doesn't leave us in a negative place. Rather, Roger Martin shows us how powerful our ability to admit our wrongs and weakness actually is...and how it just might be our greatest tool to make progress, learn, and start working with other "partly wrong" people to create some really positive changes.

I challenge anyone to pick up this book and learn how "Partly Wrong" might change your life for the better.

[Debbie Ingala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn't put this down!

Roger, you are so transparent and honest. The subject of this book is so timely; but isn't that just like God!?! I really appreciate your candid thoughts and feelings. God has been showing me that we are all imperfect people at best and it's just when I think I "get it" that He reveals just how much more needy I really am! Debbie Ingala

[Carlee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was very thought provoking and it is a great conversation starter. Roger's words have challenged and humbled me.

[Alicia Yost · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book taught me to be more comfortable with being wrong and assuming that position in my life has been freeing. It's a burden to have to be right all the time.