Review: Forcefully Advancing

reviewed by T. C. Pinckney                                                                                  Vol. XXV, No. 1, January 2012

Wes Moore is the founder and president of Evidence America, a Christian ministry devoted to apologetics and outreach training. In his book, Forcefully Advancing, he has produced a biblical, insightful, and interesting fictional account of Carter Fitzgerald’s journey thirty years into the future and his discovery of how the United States has degenerated into a thoroughly pagan society. While at first blush this may seem far-fetched, if you think about the degradation we have experienced over the last fifty or so years, the state of things the book projects is not at all unlikely.

But Wes does not leave the reader floundering hopelessly. He presents a detailed analysis of current church growth and cultural change approaches and critiques, each using biblical standards. If the book ended here, readers would be discouraged, but we are not left downcast.

Wes next presents a model for promoting truth to the lost, a practical approach anyone can use in friendly conversations. Taking it beyond the individual, Wes also shows how to develop a support system, in your church or small group.

Finally, readers are encouraged in the book’s last section where Carter Fitzgerald is taken back to the future and sees what America could become if the Forcefully Advancing strategy were implemented by Christians across the country.

Buy it. Read it. Take it seriously.

[Wes Moore, Forcefully Advancing, Tate Publishing and & Enterprises, LLC, 2009; www.tatepublishing.com; 888-361-9473. ISBN 978-1-61566-730-7]