BOOK REVIEW: Hear No Evil

Josh on March 15th, 2010

Finished up two books on the plane back from Kenya this past week – the first of which was Matthew Paul Turner’s Hear No Evil. He’s the guy behind the genius “growing up Fundamental Baptist” book Churched, which I read last year based on a recommendation from a good friend. This book is honestly more of the same – and I loved it – this time he takes the perspective of growing up with fundamental music. The author has got to be about my same age and our upbringing’s led to quite a few similar events that I could relate to in every chapter. If you are in your 20-30′s and grow up ultra-conservative (aka Amy Grant may or may not be in Heaven someday), you should totally read this book. If you’re not, it is still well written and has lots of humor in it – but I’m sorry it just won’t be the same. My only wish was that Turner would have gone deeper into the whole conservative Bible college arena he dabbles in one part of the book. Maybe that’ll be his next – I’d read it for sure!

JG


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Comments (6)

Theresa at 1:20pm March 15

This is so funny to read today. Long story short, my oldest daughter is in middle school. As I’m sure you can imagine, the cross-over from children to student ministry is huge! We attend a Church of Christ, but I want to be sure I provide as much Biblical information as I can (as a parent). I enrolled her in a Baptist program this weekend (and went along to volunteer – for 2 reasons: to listen/learn and to hear what they were teaching her). It was a tad bit STRONG and I left contemplating whether that would invite her to return or scare her to death! I have felt that leading by example is the best way to lead – but don’t want to miss something that might change my daughter’s life (for the best). As you know, children are leaving the church after high school and I don’t want my daughter to be one of those statistics! Any advice you can offer is much appreciated!

Josh at 12:02am March 25

Happy to help, David! JG