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The Reform of Renewal

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Fr. Groeschel cuts to the heart in this book as he addresses the significance and necessity of reform, renewal and conversion through God. In this book, he mixes some excellent insights from his spiritual maturity, Scripture, church history and psychology. Groeschel's main message is that there is no such thing as a complacent Christian or a complacent church. We must constantly seek God's work of conversion in our lives and must live with a repentant attitude that is constantly turning from the fallen world to believe God's good news.

Groeschel at times is quite confrontational and challenging to readers who might think they are "okay." He writes that we are not "okay" but that we are in need of God's work in our lives to transform us from our sinful ways to the ways of Jesus.

Groeschel writes as a Roman Catholic with a high view of the church and that attitude is reflected at times in his view of Protestant denominations and his leniency with his own Roman Catholic church. It was troubling for me that he does not address the crisis of sexual abuse among priests at all. That subject is truly a white elephant in this book. However, as a commener pointed out this book was written before the crisis became publicized. So the author may not have been aware of the crisis among the Roman Catholic Church.

I think this is a book that would be helpful to all readers.