Lost the Plot

by Paul Beck

Complacent, asleep, ineffective, hypocritical. However you choose to describe it, the church simply isn't working. In Lost the Plot, you get an in depth look at our failures and what we can do to fix them. Dive into what the Bible says about the early church and take a look at our own churches from the outside in.

Lost the Plot will leave you with a sense that there is more to church than 2 hours on the weekend in an elegant, multi-million dollar building sipping a latte. We have forgotten our first love in America and have replaced Him with love for ourselves. We have lost the plot.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 19, 2012

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

He had me until he said that women shouldn't be leaders in the Church, because women were more easily fooled by nature. His ONLY Biblical passage of proof was the whole Adam and Eve thing. Really, cuz from where I'm sitting, she wasn't fooled by nature, she was fooled by satan, a wee bit different than nature. Also, there are those who say, and I tend to agree with them, that Adam was right there with her when she was tempted and sinned. He didn't try to stop her. Just chilled and watched her. When she didn't die, he figured he was safe and did it too. If all women are being painted with the Eve was too weak minded to avoid being fooled by satan brush, then men get painted with the Adam was too afraid to do it himself, so he let the woman take the hit and the blame for the down fall of Man.
My Kindle is frozen, so I can't see what other verses he used as "proof" to back up his assurance that women are the mentally inferior of the two sexes, but I'm sure by cherry picking, one can make the Bible say anything one wished to further one's own agenda. Though I have to say, I honestly don't recollect Jesus saying anything about women being more gullible then men.

Just got to one of his quotes. He uses Judges 4:4-9. Funny, but in Judges, I recollect Samson being WAAAAY gullible, fooled, repeatedly, by women. Yes, they were doing him wrong, but you think he would have learned. Also, Deborah was a judge who helped to lead the people of Israel to win a victory, which was brought about at the hands of a woman, who fooled the enemy leader, a man, and killed him for Israel's ultimate victory. Yeah, women are more gullible then men.

This book had a lot of promise, but that stopped me dead in my reading. I don't know if he said to which denomination of Christianity he belonged, but I would be interested to know. Not interested enough to look the author up, but vaguely curious.