Two Minute Warning: Why It’s Time to Honor Jewish People Before the Clock Runs Out

by Bill McCartney, Aaron Fruh

After 13 years as the leader of the Promise Keepers movement, Coach Bill McCartney found what he believes to be the priority in the racial reconciliation movement. His new found passion lead to the establishment of a new ministry called "The Road to Jerusalem" that seeks to reconcile Jewish believers and Gentile believers worldwide. In Two Minute Warning McCartney unveils the approaching revolutions that God is bringing to His church and how we can adapt to them and embrace them. Each of these revolutions has to do with the Christian church being thrust together with the Jew in the coming days. The last revolution-Provision-is a wonderful promise of God's end time protection and provision for any gentile Christian willing to embrace Jews in their end time plight. He uses John 17:20-21 to illustrate that the key to world evangelism is the reconciliation of Jewish and Gentile believers and that until the two are united, God's power can never be fully expressed in the earth. Although the support of Israel receives broad acceptance from the Christian community, this timely message goes a step beyond and gives a biblical mandate for the Church to support the believing Jew, not just the national and political entity of Israel. The book is co-written by Aaron Fruh, a two-time published author with Baker Publishing Group.

228 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

William Paul McCartney was an American college football coach who was the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes for 13 seasons (1982–1994). He compiled a 93–55–5 (.624) record, and won three consecutive Big Eight Conference titles (1989–1991). McCartney's 1990 team was crowned as national champions by the Associated Press, splitting the title with Georgia Tech, who was first in the final Coaches' Poll.
McCartney was the founder of the Promise Keepers men's ministry. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2013.

Reviews

[Jasmine Shadows · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok this is a more difficult one for me to review. Although I appreciate his strong stand against the heresy of Replacement Theology, he has a few things that strays from Biblical truths, and he presents them as factual. In fact, a couple of things that he states as fact and tries to tie it to a root of replacement theology would shock many of the Messianic Jewish teachers that I follow. It was disappointing in the end of the book because he really got off in the weeds. I cannot fully recommend the book and that is sad. He is a strong supporter of Israel, and that is so needed in the church today. I wish he had stayed with the topics the book was supposed to cover.

[Jason Kirk]

Overall, definitely the strangest book co-written by a football coach, as far as I know. Many important points (about the 1,900-year history of Christian culpability for antisemitism), ultimately made in service of a bad point (a frantic argument that Zionism is the only acceptable stance).

[Dr. Paul T. Blake · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books seems to function as an equivalent to Our Hands are Stained with Blood by Michael Brown, but this one is probably easier to read for a Gentile new to the topic of Jewish roots. It is also superior in that it has a chapter/section on the anti-Israel teachings in some well-known American Evangelical circles. He has a good theme of unity and loving our believing Jewish brethren while also emphasizing that there is a difference between Jews and Gentiles. He also does well to take the book beyond simply the anti-Semitism of the historical church to press Gentile Christians for a practical action going foward.