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Wisdom Hunter A difficult subject, legalism and extreme fundamentalism is spun it into a fantastic fiction read. This re-release of Arthur's bestselling novel presents the hypocrisy of Christian legalism and a man's search for the only surviving member of his family. The story's hero, Pastor Jason Faircloth, embarks on a journey that lasts eighteen years and takes him through four countries in a quest to find the granddaughter who is being hidden from him. In a process that mirrors our own spiritual journey, he discovers a rich relationship with God and the peace that finally comes with true faith. This is my favorite novels of all time! Details   Weight 1.00 lbs Author Randall Arthur ISBN 1590529944 Format Paperback Pub Date September 2003 Restrictions SHIPS TO USA ONLY! Do NOT Order for outside USA! Pages 323 Availability Ships Same Day! Why purchase here? Proceeds help develop HOW Unit Studies! Price: $13.99 Customer Points: 13 Options   Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart             18%

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Customers rating Customers rating Customer voting Select your rating... Excellent! Very good Good Fair Poor   Customer Reviews Author: Reevster "Life Learner" Randall Arthur reveals his internal insights and missionary experience in this interesting story about spiritual abuse and many of its implications. His writing captures your attention, but the ending is so unbelievable that(if it did happen on earth) it truly would be a miracle. And, that goes for knowing characters like Jason and Yoma. You come away from the book LONGING to know (and BE) people like them. It makes you wonder what the author had to go through to learn these lessons. Author: M. McGaughey I have read few authors that gripped me the way Randall Arthur has in his three stories (Brotherhood of Betrayal, Jordan's Crossing, and Wisdom Hunter). I could not put any of them down and lost a lot of sleep the week I read them. I cried and laughed and prayed my way through each of them. Randall, if you're reading this, thank you for letting God write through you. Though it has a been a good six months since I read them I am tearing up as I remember then now and how God used them in my life. Thank you for being honest about the good and the bad in the "church" and our lives, and about God's grace and His presence through both. I truly thank God for you, brother, I really do. Author: Jerry Weinhausen What can I say? "Blown away" is an inadequate way to describe my experience with this book. In all my years never have I had the experience of wanting to meet fictional characters of a book to interact with them until this one. Who amongst us wouldn't have wanted to know a Jason Faircloth, Yoma, or Renee after her conversion? This book is riveting, heart wrenching, and full of hope. I finished it just outside my favorite Starbucks and literally wept. This book has me reconsidering a lot what passes as Christianity in my life and compels me to know Christ in the power of his resurrection. Wisdom Hunter is a gem. Thank you Randall Arthur for giving us such a powerful witness of God's forgiveness and restoration. I will never be the same. Author: Jefferis Peterson Hey, I'm a seminary graduate, and I learned more theology about what the NT Church should look like from this entertaining book than all the courses I ever took. This book is enjoyable and fun in its own right. A good read and a great character sketch of a man who is broken by his own need to be right. I don't want to give away the end, but the main character stumbles across a small church in the Norse Countries, which is the most encouraging model of NT leadership I've ever seen. I would give this book to all seminary students and pastors as their first book on church structure. The book gives a vision of what it means to be a true servant leader of the flock of Christ. Author: Mrs. M. Johnston Legalism vs Grace! "I just couldn't put it down" -how often I have heard this comment. - This time it was truth. For those associated with a church were outward appearance is all that matters, and rules rule the day, this book is for you. It will bless you and free you to enjoy your faith in a living and loving God Author: Peter Amico I read this book in one day. I could not put it down as I read and felt myself walking in the shoes of the main character. This may be a fiction book, but it is happening in the hearts of many Christians every day. Read this book for an honest look at the struggles that will come with suffering. Author: David T. Wayne The protagonist of this book, Pastor Jason Faircloth, was everyone's worst nightmare as a pastor. He fit the caricature of the arrogant, self-absorbed, uncaring, unfeeling fundamentalist pastor that we often hear about. He was one who felt that he knew the Bible well, he knew God's will, he was called by God and as such, he was unassailable. He ruled his church and his family with an iron fist. This worked well in the church - his church was able to grow. The mindless people who followed him accepted and appreciated his demagogery, but this didn't go over too well in his family. I'll stop there so as not to tell the whole story, except to say that he ends up losing his family. This loss of family forces a crisis in his life - he re-examines his faith and nearly abandons it. What he ends up abandoning is his extreme fundamentalism. What he ends up embracing is a faith that is more relational and compassionate, less structured in terms of theology and less denominationally oriented. He completely abandons anything that smacks of tradition in favor of what seems to be a pure biblical faith. This pure biblical faith is lived out in the lives of the pastor and members of a church he joins in Norway. It is there that he is exposed to what he perceives to be true and pure Christianity. The backdrop for his search for an authentic faith is his search for a granddaughter he has never met, and his search for a stunning Norwegian blonde he meets on an airplane while searching for his granddaughter. Along the way he makes stops in London, Cyprus, Norway and New York City. The book has a very poignant ending that is worth waiting for. All in all it is a very enjoyable and fast paced book. It is hard to put down. It grabs your attention at the beginning like a good fiction work should and does a good job of holding it. The book's value is in showing the dark side of extreme fundamentalism. I use the adjective "extreme" here because not all fundamentalists are as extreme as Jason Faircloth was. However, I have been around a few of the extreme fundamentalists and know enough to know that some are pretty close to Jason Faircloth. However, even though most fundamentalists are not as bad as Jason Faircloth, most share one important similarity - the focus on externals. Fundamentalism started as a good and proper doctrinal reaction to modernism but in its extreme forms it has descended into an externally based version of Christianity where one's spirituality is measured in terms of what they do or don't do. Although most real life people will never experience the extremes that we see in Jason's family, this story does do a good job of showing the impossibility of living by legalistic externals. What is missing in the life of Jason Faircloth is grace, and this is where the book has value for those who are caught up in fundamentalism. While this book tells a good story of the dangers of extreme fundamentalism there are some caveats that should be mentioned. First of all, if you are not a fundamentalist, please don't assume that all fundamentalists are like Jason Faircloth and the people in his church. Most fundamentalists are sincere Christians seeking to be faithful to Christ as best they can. They may err on the side of legalism from time to time but most folks are sincerely seeking Christ. Also, in his search for authentic Christianity Jason throws off everything that smacks of tradition. It is true that traditionalism can be as binding and deadly as extreme fundamentalism, but a rejection of all tradition is as dangerous as becoming a flaming traditionalist. Those who reject tradition usually do so out of a desire to find pure Christianity and they assume that they can find it on their own with just their Bible and the Holy Spirit. What they fail to realize is that the Holy Spirit didn't begin speaking when they became a Christian, He has been speaking and teaching the bride of Christ for thousands of years, and it won't hurt to listen to the voices of Christians who have gone before. Also, there is a subtle downplaying of the importance of preaching in this book. It is subtle - the author contrasts churches which are mere preaching stations with churches that are alive with what I would call body life. This is a false dichotomy - the preaching of the Word of God is central in any church and it can foster body life, rather than hinder it. I have two favorite quotes from the book - at one point, Jason's mentor says this: "If Christianity present in a country for a long time, and becomes tightly intertwined with the culture, is it possible that Christianity in that country could become more defined by the culture's qualities than by the actual teachings of the Bible." Overall, this is a good book - if you keep the caveats I mentioned in mind this book can help you see any legalistic tendencies in yourself and follow Jesus more fully.