"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

Sometimes my mind has so much stuff to think about that I have trouble focusing on any of them.
That's a problem if one of them is a sermon and Sunday's comin'.

I'm reading a book on my Kindle that I'd been told I should read but resisted. I knew I disagreed with the author's viewpoint and didn't want to spend the $20 to prove it. But somebody at Pathway asked me about it last Sunday and it fits within our topic for this Sunday's class. So I downloaded it for half the physical book's price and set to work on it yesterday. I'll finish it tomorrow; it's a short and easy read.

I can't remember having this visceral a reaction to a book in a long time. I'm angered and offended and irritated.
And I'm only half way through.

He uses what's called the straw man attack to lump virtually all evangelicals into the same ugly camp with no allowance that some (most?) of them are gracious, sacrificial servants of Christ. He cites the worst examples of the narrowest and harshest believers and use that as the brush with which we're all painted.

His exegesis is atrocious. He misuses passages in ways no scholar has to date (e.g. the rich man's goal in Luke 16 is to return Lazarus to servitude). It's one thing for a layman to make errors of interpretation, but someone who writes books and claims to have the answers we can and should expect better scholarship.

He has answers almost no other theologians for the last 2,000 years have seen, and that's their failure.

I'm not sure which bothers me more - what he's saying or the attitude that comes through in the way he says it.

I guess I expect a more gracious tone to a book with "Love" in the title.

IMHO