Erin Wheeler, The Good Portion: The Church. Christian Focus, 2022. 223 pages.
Erin Wheeler does a wonderful job of both defending the doctrine of the church and describing its beauty in her book The Church. Erin and her husband, Brad, live in Fayetteville, Arkansas where Brad is the pastor at University Baptist Church. It wasn’t lost on me that this resource was written by a pastor’s wife, one who would be intimately familiar with the messiness and complexities of church life and yet who rightly praises the glorious work that God is doing through his church.
This book is part of The Good Portion series edited by Keri Folmar. The series is “written specifically for women to immerse themselves in the depths of Christian doctrine,” and that’s what Wheeler does so well. And she does so while providing many illustrations along the way that relate particularly to women. Each chapter closes with a number of thought-provoking questions, making it an excellent resource for one-on-one or small group discussion.
Summary
Part One provides the definition of a church. As Wheeler states in the intro, “My deepest desire in writing this book is that you come away realizing God has very
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