Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians

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But I have already been dragged into the fold, kicking and screaming by you wonderful people (and I will love you all forever for it – my gratitude toward this community is boundless). There are also the regular people who love themselves more than God and prefer their own enjoyment to worshiping and serving Him. If I can't win with Christian media, and I can't win with secular media, then what is the point of deciding between the two? In a very profound manner, Walsh describes a scenario where the "heathen" come to America wanting to kill Christians, thinking it is a Christian nation.

Can’t think of who I would recommend this book to, anyone who would want to read it and who wouldn’t be offended by it would already have drawn the same conclusions at Walsh. Homeschooling is a very viable option, board games instead of TV, house churches instead of traditional churches, something, anything, to give people an option.This isn’t actually sound biblical doctrine but rather different heresies that make us feel good or “fit in” with the world. It hurts to read of my own flaws and failures in his pages and to see where I have been found lacking. As I do not normally expect that from literature, I was not left unsatisfied, but others may feel it weighs to heavily on the side of exposure. It's an odd argument, but more importantly it felt very irrelevant to the overall topic of the book. No, because I believe that he's still a Christian even though I think he's wrong about a lot of things.

We've maybe remembered the grace of God, but have left the TRUTH of God outside many of our churches.The multiplication of desires in our culture and the church focus on the here and now instead of eternity. Sure, we face some backlash, and we are in danger of losing religious liberty (there is no denying that, and he doesn’t).

If you're not a Christian, I still highly recommend it so you can get a better idea of what a real Christian is supposed to act like. In a world where religious leaders routinely trade their principles for the world’s approval, Matt Walsh remains a fearless defender of the faith. He refers to Christian leaders he disagrees with as apostates and heathens; he only once implies that the church should go back to killing these apostates though.

The current Church in the USA has been going through a messy time for some years (decades), but few seem to want to delve into the questions and answers (how did it get into this mess? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This softens the blow a bit when he goes on the warpath against professed Christians who minimize the importance of good works, who see Jesus as little more than a casual buddy, who deny that pain and suffering should be expected in the believer’s life, who dismiss Satan as fictional, who shift their moral stance based on public opinion, who exalt tolerance and a false compassion, who allow Netflix and the Internet to dominate their mind’s attention, and who neglect the importance of the organized local church. If Christ is not close to our primary joy in life, how can we go to a place where He is the only joy? About how the people in our church completely lack any reverence for what we are doing, and about how the church has become a social club.