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I have read Love Jesus, Hate Church
and I have had so many emotions reading that book. One minute, I am
nodding my head in agreement and the next I am shaking my head,
embarrassed and ashamed because I see me on the page. This book is a must
read and I am telling everyone of my friends in ministry to get it.
Mark Harris (of 4HIM):
In "no-holds-barred" descriptive
language, Steve McCranie boldly proclaims what many disgruntled
"go-with-the-flow-of-the-status-quo" pastors only wish they could
verbalize.
Great job McCranie!
This is a very timely book.
Rick Diefenderfer
Creating Christian Communities
When you grow up with a dad and church
experiences like Steve’s, you either bail out of religion, turn into a big
phony, or become an in-your-face prophet. And very few will end up
the prophet. Isn’t it enough to go through the garbage without
then turning into someone with a message most people will reject?
“Yikes!” shot out of my mouth a lot when reading what he’s seen and been
through. Yet, maybe it was the high heat in the crucible of these
experiences that God used to burn high expectations of the Church and of
Christians into his heart and fire his frustrations and inspire the
reader.
To write this way you have to have a voice and a message. Steve McCranie
has both.
Gary Morland
Co-Host of the Family Friendly Morning Show
New Life 91.9 - WRCM - Charlotte, NC
Finally, a book that speaks frankly to
the baggage we in a western world have brought into the church and
challenges us to consider why some may Christians in America Love Jesus
and Hate Church. Jason
Bessire
Who Is Jesus 2 You? - Charlotte, NC
While three out of four Americans consider themselves
Christian, less than one in three went to church in
1991. That number went down below one in four by
1997. Clearly, the CHURCH ISN’T WORKING. Why do so
many Americans Love Jesus, and Hate Church?
Steve McCranie answers this question and
issues an important challenge to America’s Christians
and churches in Love Jesus, Hate Church. This
provocative book is a frank, no-holds-barred expose of
the church by a pastor with two decades of experience
in churches from Georgia to Washington State.
Pastor
McCranie first examines typical problems that drive
Christians away from church, and in the process,
reaches out to those Christians who have left; second,
he examines the root causes of these problems, and
what is needed to fix them; and third, he proposes
ways parishioners can fix their churches.
Pastor McCranie’s writing is funny, blunt, passionate,
at times prophetic, but never dull. This is a book
that will bring Christians back to church— Christians
who, like McCranie, are fired up with the Gospel. It
gives these parishioners tools to address the problems
in their churches in a constructive way.
Gary Heidt
Imprint - New York, NY
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