"They Like Jesus But Not the Church" reviews

The book "They Like Jesus but not the Church" finally came out a few days ago. There are two reviews of it so far that I have read:

- Scot McKnight's review here

- Radio talk show host Eric Hogue's review here

This book is for church leaders and those interested in looking at how people outside the church are perceiving the church and Christians from that perspective. I am finishing another book called "I Like Jesus, but not the Church: Following Jesus without  following organized religion" which is due on May 1 and comes out at the end of the year. So I will be working on that one over the next month and a half. That book is for the average person addressing the same issues as the They Like Jesus one but from a non-church leaders perspective.

You can read the Table of Contents, a sample chapter and a list of endorsements of the They Like Jesus book here on the Zondervan web site.

We are developing a web site that will be able to interact about the specific topics in the chapters, but that is yet to come and I will blog about that later.... I am going on vacation later this week and will get to that afterward.

I t will be interesting to see the response to They Like Jesus but not the Church, as I imagine some church leaders won't be too happy about how people view the church or how I agree with a lot that is said about the church. I don't blame them for how many outside the church see us. But there is great hope, if we only realize that we have not been to Jesus-like in many situations or realize how we hide in the Christian bubble and get so entrenched in the strange sub-culture that most people don't get to meet us and build trust in us.