BEYOND PROMISES
A Biblical Challenge To Promise Keepers
by David Hagopian and Douglas Wilson
Canon Press, 268 pages, $13.99

Amid all the excitement about Promise Keepers, the popular men’s movement sweeping churches across the nation, comes a balanced, fair and biblical critique of all its phases.

Because of the enthusiasm generated at Promise Keepers rallies, followers often suspend judgment and discernment regarding the organization and its teachings. This book, however, takes the time to put the organization under the scrutiny of God’s Word.

While the Promise Keepers leadership speaks about integrity, the authors of this book document that they have not always acted with integrity, nor have they handled the Word of God with solid hermeneutical principles.

Chapter 5, “The Tower of Psychobabble,” along with Chapter 6, “A Journey To Nowhere,” expose the Promise Keepers leadership’s lack of discernment in terms of the shallow and misleading written material that the organization approves and distributes. Some of the book’s examples are appalling.

Readers should be aware that the book’s orientation in spots is decidedly Calvinistic. Some readers might want to skip those areas.

Beyond Promises has been endorsed by John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul and Don Matzat. We hope that many more will read it and prayerfully consider its contents.

—GRF

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