Ten prominent North American Evangelicals, selected I presume because of their experience in their respective fields, (not to mention their friendship with the compiler!) reflect on chosen aspects of a ‘pledge’ drawn up by Dr. Ché Ahn, which is designed to challenge the Church with a Call to Reformation. They write with both passion and compassion, especially Lou Engle on Abortion and Jim Garlow on same sex marriage, as they describe campaigns they have waged. John Arnott writes on Love, Cindy Jacobs on Holiness (is she right, I wonder, to see a ‘sweeping movement of God’ coming? These writers do tend to see things happening of which I am not quite sure!), James Goll on Intercession (including Prayer for Israel), Heidi Baker on Loving the Poor, and Bill Johnson on Revival and the Presence of God. It’s all fairly familiar stuff, with no great surprises. It is the other three chapters, by Lance Wallnau, C.Peter Wagner and Chuck Pierce that I struggled with, for they all seem to me to represent an extreme, non-mainstream brand of theology. They talk, just to give three examples, of the ‘Seven Mountains of Culture’, the beginning of the ‘Second Apostolic Age’ in 2001 (Where was I when that happened?), and ‘apostolic alignment for prophetic fulfilment’ (Eh?). I cannot cotton on to these ideas. Wagner’s essay also smacks of the ‘prosperity gospel’. The blurb on the cover says this book will ‘stir your soul, ignite your calling, and fulfil your God-given destiny’. That’s a tall order, and I don’t see this as one of the rare books that achieve that goal.

Ten prominent North American Evangelicals, selected I presume because of their experience in their respective fields, (not to mention their friendship with the compiler!) reflect on chosen aspects of a ‘pledge’ drawn up by Dr. Ché Ahn, which is designed to challenge the Church with a Call to Reformation. They write with both passion and compassion, especially Lou Engle on Abortion and Jim Garlow on same sex marriage, as they describe campaigns they have waged. John Arnott writes on Love, Cindy Jacobs on Holiness (is she right, I wonder, to see a ‘sweeping movement of God’ coming? These writers do tend to see things happening of which I am not quite sure!), James Goll on Intercession (including Prayer for Israel), Heidi Baker on Loving the Poor, and Bill Johnson on Revival and the Presence of God. It’s all fairly familiar stuff, with no great surprises. It is the other three chapters, by Lance Wallnau, C.Peter Wagner and Chuck Pierce that I struggled with, for they all seem to me to represent an extreme, non-mainstream brand of theology. They talk, just to give three examples, of the ‘Seven Mountains of Culture’, the beginning of the ‘Second Apostolic Age’ in 2001 (Where was I when that happened?), and ‘apostolic alignment for prophetic fulfilment’ (Eh?). I cannot cotton on to these ideas. Wagner’s essay also smacks of the ‘prosperity gospel’. The blurb on the cover says this book will ‘stir your soul, ignite your calling, and fulfil your God-given destiny’. That’s a tall order, and I don’t see this as one of the rare books that achieve that goal.

Ten prominent North American Evangelicals, selected I presume because of their experience in their respective fields, (not to mention their friendship with the compiler!) reflect on chosen aspects of a ‘pledge’ drawn up by Dr. Ché Ahn, which is designed to challenge the Church with a Call to Reformation. They write with both passion and compassion, especially Lou Engle on Abortion and Jim Garlow on same sex marriage, as they describe campaigns they have waged. John Arnott writes on Love, Cindy Jacobs on Holiness (is she right, I wonder, to see a ‘sweeping movement of God’ coming? These writers do tend to see things happening of which I am not quite sure!), James Goll on Intercession (including Prayer for Israel), Heidi Baker on Loving the Poor, and Bill Johnson on Revival and the Presence of God. It’s all fairly familiar stuff, with no great surprises. It is the other three chapters, by Lance Wallnau, C.Peter Wagner and Chuck Pierce that I struggled with, for they all seem to me to represent an extreme, non-mainstream brand of theology. They talk, just to give three examples, of the ‘Seven Mountains of Culture’, the beginning of the ‘Second Apostolic Age’ in 2001 (Where was I when that happened?), and ‘apostolic alignment for prophetic fulfilment’ (Eh?). I cannot cotton on to these ideas. Wagner’s essay also smacks of the ‘prosperity gospel’. The blurb on the cover says this book will ‘stir your soul, ignite your calling, and fulfil your God-given destiny’. That’s a tall order, and I don’t see this as one of the rare books that achieve that goal.