Well, I ended up skimming this book. And let me just say that I absolutely hate writing negative reviews. This review, however, is even harder to write as Francis Chan is a favorite pastor and author of mine. This book just missed the mark for me though.

While I believe that the concept and heart behind Letters To The Church was good, the book itself just wasn’t. I will only touch briefly on what I didn’t like as, again, I do not enjoy writing negative reviews.

The book felt very repetitive. At times it teetered on the ledge of relying too much on works, which I know was not Chana’s intention as he greatly emphasizes salvation by faith and grace alone. It also didn’t feel super relevant to me as someone who is not a church leader or pastor.

I’m just going to leave it at that but I do highly recommend reading Crazy Love and Forgotten God by Francis Chan as well as Radical by David Platt, which has a similar topic to this book but I feel was better executed (again, this hurts me to say but I hope someone might find it helpful).

God bless,
Kaya :)