A review by hannahowens
Letters to the Church, by Francis Chan

4.0

Love the way Chan talks about church, reminding a Western world that it is, very simply, Christians being together in community that forms it, nothing to do with a building or denomination. He draws out the absurdity of the way we speak about church today: 'going to church' or many of the other recent bells and whistles - additions that are, at best, unnecessary, or at worst, deeply damaging and distracting. Chan makes a passionate plea to return to simpler forms of meeting. I particularly was challenged by his chapter on the sacredness of church. I wonder if he could have gone further with dismissing certain structures we currently hold dear, eg. he still seems to sit more on the side of upholding hierarchies than myself. I'm still not sure how much leadership I feel is proscribed in the Bible or necessary, but that may just be me!