The Summons

by Dennis McCallum

Book Overview

When Sherry begins attending Christian fellowhip meetings on campus--even though she has been skeptical of Christianity for years--she is immediately attracted to the group's leader, handsome Jack... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891097686
• ISBN13: 9780891097686
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Few Good Points to be Made

While the quality of the writing in The Summons could be better, the author is successful in breaking through the "churchiness" of church and helping the reader to see what non-essential traditions and methods of the church look like from the outside in. We see Sherry, the typical intelligent, unchurched college student, go through a personal crisis which causes her to seek spiritual answers. She examines several versions of faith including a typical protestant church where her experience is dry, and the traditions have overtaken the message of the gospel. By contrast she becomes involved in a campus house church, where traditions are stripped away and a vital outreach ministry is in process. The reader is left to examine just what elements of traditional church are essential to Christianity and which need to be changed and adapted to reach a changing post-modern culture. McCallum's side-trip into spiritual warfare would have been best left out of the novel entirely, but the insights into effective outreach, as well as the sermons delivered by "Jack" make this novel worth reading. We would do well to look at our own churches through the eyes of an outsider, and consider what may be inhibiting our witness.

Timely Literature

This author was new to me. I had a little trouble with the young woman, Sherry. She seemed quite stuck on her self. The book as a whole was very good. I too, have been envolved with "formalism" and have experienced it's destruction upon my life. The book brought out the Truth that some people might not want to hear or should I say read. One does not have to be ordained to teach the WORD. In fact a person can be lead to Christ by one who has experienced HIS love.