Review of Mending a Fractured Church

Joe Valenti offers a nice review of Mending a Fractured Church (edited by M. Bird and B. Rosner, published by Lexham Press).

The authors of these short essays do an excellent job of presenting their topics with clarity and brevity – showing from Scripture the goal of Christian unity, but also underscoring the fact that there is very little room for disagreement on issues that are central to the gospel. While the authors unanimously affirm that there is some room for disagreement on secondary and tertiary issues, the clarity with which they define the boundaries between the primary and secondary issues is lacking. Malone notes that the Bible gives examples of, “significant, black-and-white, first order issues.” But it might be argued that there are myriad issues that all affect the gospel. Perhaps another volume dedicated to clarity in this area is in order.

He also made this piccie: