1 STAR
REVIEW: This
Beautiful Mess by Rick
McKinley
I wanted to like this book.
The concept was engaging, and the
cover is stunning, but it just did not give me what I expected.
Granted, the topic is heavy—explaining
how the Kingdom of God is here among us yet far away—a hard topic for anyone to
grapple and explain. But, I came away from
the book a bit more confused than when I started, wondering what exactly author
Rick McKinley was trying to say.
He give some examples of things his
worship community, Imago Dei, have done, but it did not seem to provide helpful
inspiration or practical ideas for those reading the book of how to show the
Kingdom of God breaking through their own context.
There are a few questions at the end
of the book guided toward conversation, and it is definitely for “conversation,”
not a small group study, as there are only three or four small questions
related to each chapter.
Again, I wanted to like the book,
but it was too much of a mess for me.
Maybe you will see it differently.
*I received this book
for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this unbiased review.
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