John Armstrong’s “Your Church Is Too Small”

You’ve seen me write about “Why I am Converting to Catholicism” in one of my other posts, where  I basically explain that I am going to begin to work on unifying the Church instead of destroying it. Interestingly, that’s before I went to a luncheon at Biblical Seminary which hosted Wheaton College Graduate School adjunct professor and author John Armstrong. John was there to speak about what he had established in his book Your Church Is Too Small: Why Unity in Christ’s Mission Is Vital to the Future of the Church about the importance of Christian unity. So, obviously, I was intrigued.

John’s talk that day at the luncheon did not disappoint. He spoke of how Jesus prayed for the unity of his people (John 17), and, if we are going to argue over points of doctrine, John 17 is doctrine as well. I was left with the nagging question, Why have I never held Jesus’ prayer in John 17 on equal footing as, say, my views on the atonement, etc.? The fact is, I wasn’t, but John Armstrong does; and that was convicting to me. Thus, the obvious thing to do was to pick up my NOOKcolor and download the book. So, I did…

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