Rethinking God: Undoing the Damage

By Scott Munger

DR. MUNGER CHALLENGES READERS TO RETHINK THEIR CONCEPT OF GOD. After twenty years of focused overseas, an American missionary looks home. Dr.Scott Munger applies to his own people, especially to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899570380
• ISBN13: 9780899570389
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Living Ink Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

refreshing and refining

refreshing, refining, excellently done combining personal experience and a breadth of biblical understanding to reveal the core of God's will for us through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Truth seekers, this is a gold mine.

Too Good to Recommend...

On rare occasions there comes a book of such quality & importance that a mere recommendation to friends and family is just not good enough... Get yourself a stack of these and start handing them out! This book is a fantastic response to the most important questions not only of our time, but of all time... Well researched, well documented, well thought out... Life changing. Thank you so much, Scott Munger, for the blood, sweat, tears & years that you've invested to make this book available.

Light and Truth - Redemptive combination!

Scott Munger is a dear friend of mine. What endears me most to him is his pursuit and insistence on truth. What Scott has written in Rethinking God is not only provocative in terms of his clear and insightful treatment of the Bible, but is a breath of fresh air in terms of how he has put into context the absolute importance of how we think about God. How would we ever trust someone we don't know? And how could we ever know someone if we didn't feel free to ask any and all questions of and about them? I believe that Scott would answer "we can't", so he doesn't. Rather he asks not only the obvious questions, but the questions that most of us may have but are not willing not only to ask outloud, but often times even of ourselves. While there are many intelligent and insightful writers, there are fewer inherently honest truth-seekers. Scott's desire for personal integrity, his honest heart-felt questions and his quest to be conformed more to the image of Christ make him and his book well worth knowing and reading.

The Truth Can Hurt a Bit

Scott Munger has given us a wake-up call -- A serious dose of Truth in Love. Although some of these issues are controversial in the Evangelical machine, Dr. Munger gives sound biblical support for why we need to reexamine ourselves. Too many lives are at stake -- Jesus gave us a simpler and more selfless way to reach the world. Again, some of the ideas delivered by Dr. Munger are controversial, but heartfelt dialogue about God and His true message are absolutely necessary today. Passive participation in Christendom isn't doing us any good. It's time to ReThink some things -- Randall Niles

A Stirring Call to Re-examine today's Church

Articulate and direct Scott Munger calls on the church and individuals in the church to rethink their concept of God. Dr. Munger tells his personal story of agnostic uncertainty to his acceptance of the truth of the Gospel message. He shares personal stories and observations from his life in rain forest in the Philippines to the former USSR, Asia and Europe. Munger has been trained in Science, in Biochemistry, in the humanities, and in linguistics. He has done research in the fields of cultural, sociological, and linguistic studies of other peoples. Well known for his stance on Evangelicalism today he has been featured on CNN and FOX News. After twenty years of overseas missionary service Dr. Munger applies the understanding gained in culture, languages, and Biblical studies to challenge the American church to examine the veracity and power of their faith. Dr. Munger asks the reader to consider the ways in which we have allowed our church structure, programs, political action groups, and a vague or misinterpreted theology to distort the picture of God we give to the world. A world desperately in need of the message we profess has power over sin and the promise of eternal life. He calls the reader to involve themselves in politics as citizens, to vote, to speak up for rights, and to pray for governments and their leaders. He cautions the reader: "Don't confuse earthbound political positioning with the divine administration of eternity." The problem of evil is presented from a philosophers view and then from the scriptural teaching. Pain, suffering and the source of evil are all considered in light of the Christian's response. In the chapter which includes "Stories from the Rain Forest" Dr. Munger stimulates the thinking of the reader in areas of evangelism and missions. The familiar story of the woman at the well related in John chapter four provides lessons in contrasts: Compassion, not condescension, truth not tolerance, relationship, not religion, fulfillment, not fluff, service, not self, and organic, not organized. The appendix, notes, and index included in the book make this an excellent resource for class study, reference, and lesson or sermon preparation. Dr. Scott Munger asks the hard questions. Thought provoking and challenging "Rethinking God" is a wake up call to today's Evangelical.