Review: Be Myself (Warren W. Wiersbe, Wheaton, Victor Books, 1994)

by A. C. Smith                                                                                                Vol. VIII, No. 5, May 1995

If you love Warren Wiersbe and enjoy biographies, then this is the book for you. In this autobiography, the writer, formerly with Back to the Bible and Youth for Christ, details his life from family background, early childhood, up to the present time when he spends his time writing and doing conference ministries. Wiersbe is perhaps most well known for his “Be” series books, which cover all the New Testament, and he’s now working on selected Old Testament books. In all he has authored over 100 titles. The first was done while he was an unsaved teenager on card tricks.

Formerly the pastor of historic Moody Memorial Church, Wiersbe is a pastor’s pastor. Wiersbe once pastored a Southern Baptist church – Calvary Baptist of Covington, KY. Wiersbe was ordained by a church with the General Association of Regular Baptists, and he got his theological training at an American Baptist seminary – Northern Baptist Seminary near Chicago was conservative in those days.

Wiersbe was saved in a Youth for Christ meeting when a young evangelist named Billy Graham was preaching. This no doubt influenced Wiersbe to work with believers he didn’t always agree with. In Wiersbe’s words he is a Christian first and a Baptist second.

Wiersbe says he has not changed any of his theology through the years, although he has “rearranged some furniture.”

Wiersbe is a good, entertaining writer. This is the kind of book you will sit up all night reading.