New Hope Publishers, 2006, 224 pp.,
$14.99, www.NewHopePublishers.com
“In new wineskins and perhaps through the life of an old wino, our ecclesiology must be upended by the ‘least of these’: the hungry, imprisoned, sick, and stranger.”
So writes Jimmy Dorrell in his Trolls and Truth, one of two new books that press the church to get into the trenches (See review, Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation by Randy White). Trolls and Truth exposes the heart of an itinerant revolutionary from a long time ago. You may have heard of him. Jesus? The author — pastor of The Church Under the Bridge in Waco, Texas — uses stories from his very diverse, predominantly “underprivileged” congregation to deliver a wake-up slap (in Christian love) to the slumbering group who calls themselves the church. While everyone needs to read this book (seriously), your first priority is to give it to compassionate activists in your group. It will light a contagious fire in them to invite the marginalized person to move from “ministry project” to “brother” or “sister.”
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John Dunham, writer, International Bible Society, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
