Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been helped a lot over the years by Voddie and his preaching. I can think of specific sermons at Ligonier conferences and articles that he has written. Further, I genuinely hope his current health issues are dealt with swiftly and pray he returns to full health. I didn’t have high expectations for this book but I did hope there would at least be some redemptive spots to it. There were not redemptive spots. It was fear, scaremongering, and slander throughout. It is hard to underestimate how many extremely faithful lifelong Bible expositors got drug in this book. To be frank, I am surprised anyone would publish it. The book is sloppily argued and sourced. Most of the primary sources you would hope such a book would interact with are not dealt with in primary fashion. Many of these interactions come from interacting with secondary critics of primary sources. Further there’s a lot of bizarre citations from things on Twitter and other social media content. Is CRT worthy of being critiqued? Yes. Are there very problematic things being said? Yes. Does this volume substantively deal with that? No. Does this volume create straw men through and through? Yes. The saddest thing for me is the fact that Voddie has no shortage of sharp, Jesus-loving, Gospel-saturated, careful-thinking, and nuanced people who have robust Biblical theologies of justice that were formed long before CRT was a buzz word. These voices are ignored or worse - folks with robust biblical theologies of justice are painted as enemies of the Gospel. Unpacking and critiquing CRT is a 401 conversation. It is a worthwhile conversation but it requires at least 101 and 201 homework first. In order to have a seat at the table in that 401 conversation one needs to demonstrate that they currently possess a biblical theology of justice that is at least historically backtested in three ways: 1. Your current biblical theology of justice ends chattel slavery 2. Your current biblical theology of justice ends Jim Crow 3. Your current biblical theology of justice creates a civil right movement resulting in legislation that secures equality for all Americans Until you have done the legwork to have a historically backtested biblical theology of justice - it is inappropriate to weigh into this broader conversation as there are more urgent weightier matters of the law that need reckoned with in your own soul first.