Excellent Reads…

I received “Turning the Ship: Exploring the Age-Integrated Church” yesterday and read it in a few hours. Dustin Guidry, pastor of Ridgewood Church (a Southern Baptist church in Port Arthur, Texas) tells the story of God sending their church back to the Scripture. It is a thrilling tale of what God is beginning to do in many churches around the nation. Let me warn you, it will challenge you – it certainly did me – and I already believed in the principles promoted in the book.

Next, I finished reading through most of Voddie Baucham’s “Family Driven Faith.” This is also an excellent book on the same subject – de-splintering the family of God. The largest difference in the two books might be that Dr. Baucham’s church was multi-generational from day one, whereas Ridgewood Church made the difficult 180 degree turn as an established church.

I also read this week the short work by Dr. Paige Patterson, “Anatomy of a Reformation: The Southern Baptist Convention 1979-2004.” As a Southern Baptist who is immensely grateful for the miracle God performed in rescuing our convention, this was a delightful read. I was a student at an SBC seminary during some of those years and I can assure you that change was necessry. I had a professor who cursed in class and told inappropriate jokes and I had another professor who told us about his sermon entitled, “God, our Mother”! I am thankful to the much-maligned believers God used in bringing our convention back to the Bible. May we not be guilty of losing it again.

And I am still reading at home, little by little, “John Adams” by David McCullough. I am learning a great deal I never knew or remembered about the beginning years in our nation.

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