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Pharisectomy: How To Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee And Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases (2012)

by Peter Haas(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1936699443 (ISBN13: 9781936699445)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Influence Resources

review 1: Peter Haas does a great job of separating the human-made religious actions that separates us as Christians, and people in general, to get back to the heart of what Christianity is. Following Christ. His humorous look at how we are actually supposed to behave as Christians makes for a fun read and an enlightening experience.**Disclaimer** I work for the publisher, My Healthy Church.
review 2: This book was recommended to me by our church's "equipping minister." I generally don't like comedy in my non-fiction religious books, but at times I did laugh out loud. As a life-long Christian, who can be legalistic at times, this was a good refresher for me. The book went a few directions I didn't anticipate, so if you think you know everything the author is going to ... moresay just from the title, then you should dig in a little more.The biggest take-away for me was that I need to get over criticizing my church service. There are MANY things in this life that I feel could benefit from my improvement, sermons being one of them. This book sort of freed me to accept my disgruntlement. As I've known, "church" is more than the Sunday morning service. Peter Haas helped me realize that if my "church" life is thriving in all areas except the Sunday service, I'm probably right where I need to be. Haas is a young minister and sometimes I think youth equals traditional church hatred. He addresses this stereotype, but consistently upholds the church as God's intended plan. I found his youth and his understanding of church's role refreshing.Another point that I'd never heard explained quite like Haas does, is the use of "hedges." Once a Christian decides to live differently and is pursuing holiness in a certain area, he will set up "hedges" to protect him from sinning. These are self-imposed and are gladly enforced with an end in mind. The problem comes when one Christian enforces her "hedges" on another. The same can be true for a whole church -- making these hedges or restrictions doctrine instead of a self-chosen means to an end.My one criticism of the book is that I think Peter Haas is a little lose with his Scripture references. I found that I needed my Bible close at hand because he would make a point and then reference a Bible verse. Most of the time, the reference held true, but there were several times I thought, "What? The Bible says that?" I'd look up the reference and found he'd taken a very different interpretation of a passage than I'd ever heard. I don't think the points he was making were wrong, but I thought the scriptural supports were stretched a bit. But he's charismatic and I'm not and after reading the book, I just say, "okay!" less

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