When Heaven Invades Earth by Bill Johnson
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Book Summary Author: Bill Johnson Foreword: Jack Taylor Foreword: Randy Clark Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2005-01-01 ISBN: 0768429528 Number of pages: 192 Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers |
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Book Reviews of the When Heaven Invades Earth
Customer Review: Three different kinds of bad
Summary: 1 Stars
I am currently on page 45 of this book, and into my eighth page of notes outlining the terrible exegesis, fallacious lines of reasoning and dangerous rhetoric better suited to a motivational speaker. I can only conclude at this point that the only people who will find edification in this book are those people who buy into any nice-sounding "theology," or already believe the assertions that Johnson states as fact, rather than proving out of the Bible.
As some other reviewers have mentioned, Johnson tends to use scriptures that describe (self-admittedly) mysterious and complex topics (e.g. the Kingdom of God, Worship, the presence of God, etc.) to support his particular bent of theology. If he were to actually make a well though-out case for his assertions, that would be one thing, but instead he bookends these statements with words like "obviously" and "it is apparent" to silence any discussion in the matter.
Also, Johnson routinely follows poor lines of reasoning, as seen in this following excerpt (p. 45):
"Faith lives within the revealed will of God. When I have misconceptions of who He is and what He is like, my faith is restricted by those misconceptions. For example, if I believe that God allows sickness in order to build character, I'll not have confidence praying in most situations where healing is needed."
So what Johnson is saying, if I could re-organize his thoughts, is that 1) God never allows sickness to build character, and presumably not for any other reason, 2) every situation where sickness is present is intended to end in healing, and 3) the confidence of the person praying directly influences the effectiveness of the prayer. This is bad reasoning, and each of those three points contains room for discussion out of the scriptures.
Additionally, he overuses commas and italicized text.
Pass on this one.