Once An Insider, Now Without A Church Home
One Couple's Faith Crisis Due to the Infiltration and Spread of Authoritarianism, Calvinism, Complementarianism, and Covenants in the Am Evangelical Church
by Amanda Farmer
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Pub Date Oct 30 2018 | Archive Date Oct 09 2022
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Description
This is the story of one couple's faith crisis after realizing the church they have spent 25 years serving as leaders in has made subtle but profound changes over the years. It is their journey from being trusting followers of Jesus to questioning everything about their faith.
Who is really following the Bible? Who is really interpreting the Bible correctly? This is a personal memoir that follows the changes in the American Evangelical Church as it becomes more popular to embrace Calvinism, Authoritarianism, Complementarianism, and Covenants and the effect this can have on one's faith.
Advance Praise
"Gordon and Amanda Farmer, through personal experience, discovered the painful realities and fruit of pervasive popular movements within evangelical Christianity, where those who dare to voice disagreement with the declared consensus of the leadership, are marginalized being labeled as divisive, immature, trouble-makers--and finally neutralized by church covenants designed to weed out any who dare to voice dissent through sincere questions and reasonable requests."
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781726710916 |
| PRICE | $3.69 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Kay O, Reviewer
Hindsight is always 20/20, but staying that long at a church you called home was a mistake.
It seemed as though there were many red flags.
Hopefully you have moved on and found a new church home.
Thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free, it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.
Jill T, Reviewer
Once An Insider, Now Without A Church Home
by Amanda Farmer
5 stars
Amanda Farmer starts her journey with how she met her husband and the path they took to finding a church that would work for both of them. They found a small church and became very involved in it. A new pastor slowly starts bringing in Calvinism into the church. Farmer and her family know it feels wrong, but why?
As she researches and learns more about the Calvin belief set, she and her husband realize this is not what they believe. She backs up her many assertions against Calvinism. This book is at some points so sad, as you can feel the heart-wrenching ache she and her husband feel as this mindset moves into their church and they begin to question everything they believe and their church believes.
Many will wonder why it took them so long to leave a church that they felt was going wrong, but leaving a church that feels like family is so hard.The tilt this church took is incredibly sad as is the epilogue.
I highly recommend this book.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley.
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