Customer Reviews

3 reviews

• Nic Boyns

  It is refreshing to read a book which does what it says on the front cover "Authentic Church: A radically old model of being church for twenty-first century Britain". It inspired readers to be more authentic and more radical in being in a community of word, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer. The book finishes with John Peck's inspiring vision of the church and it seems to this reader that the preceding pages were an excellent case study of how one church sought to embody that vision.

• Richard Farr

  This book goes back to basics: Apostle basics. You can't argue with that.
  
  The centuries of political accommodation are peeled back to the raw necessities of the true Christian life. The book also spotlights the acute differences between St Peter and St Paul (and I thought Paul was the conservative), and how Paul spread the Good News using gatherings in houses, with food around a table.
  
  Jesus' open and radical acceptance of the unclean (spiritually and physically) and the despised (Samaritans and Tax Collectors) makes one wonder how one would welcome into one's current day church equivalent outcasts?
  
  If you want authentic faith, and walk the real Jesus talk; please read this book.

• Alasdair Cant

  Authentic Church is a refreshing read, if not always easy. Alongside the exposition of the theological position, there is a heartfelt plea to the established church to look afresh at itself. I particularly liked that this is done through the lens of the earliest Christian communities, wrestling with familiar scripture to offer something seemingly radical and alternative today, but well proven over centuries.
  
  

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