Incomplete Church

I recently read The Incomplete Church by Sid Roth. When I began reading this book, I made it about 30 pages before I had to put it away. To the bookshelf it went, and then to the moving boxes, only to be rediscovered about 10 months later. Having forgotten why I put it away, I picked it up again.

Sid Roth himself can be hard to take. His focus on the supernatural can wear on you. I am a believer in the supernatural myself, but I also am cautious to not demand signs and wonders from God. Throughout the Bible, God cautions about looking for, asking for, demanding, or refusing to believe without a sign. I believe He calls them a "wicked and adulterous generation" (Mt. 12:39, Mt. 16:4).

That said, after 10 months, I grabbed this book and started reading again and found it to be filled with scripturally sound beliefs. That's not to say I agree with everything wholeheartedly, but I do find value in the book, and truths that I had not earlier considered have now deeply embedded themselves in my heart.

However, one area I struggle with personally is the way he interprets the concept of "to the Jew first." While I agree that we must evangelize the Jewish people, I also hesitate to devalue God's works of the past. Roth claims revival can only come when we have first evangelized the Jew successfully. Yet, what does that mean for the revivals of the past? Were they not genuine?

We must love the Jewish people. We must be grafted into the vine alongside them. We cannot escape this fact. We must evangelize them, loving them in this way. We must pray for them to return as the once prodigal son did, and we must be cautious to avoid any false doctrines, like Replacement Theology.

Overall, The Incomplete Church is a good work. I feel it has some flaws, but I also feel it is worth reading with caution, testing everything against the Word of God.

http://www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Church-Unifying-Gods-Children/dp/0768424372/ref=la_B000APK9OW_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1366737803&sr=1-4