Book Review - Keep Christianity Weird

Keep Christianity Weird: Embracing the discipline of being different
Michael Frost
NavPress 2018

Reviewed by Diane Busch

This book introduces an interesting way of looking at Christianity.  As Christ followers we should be different than the world.  We may appear weird as we love our enemies, forgive those who hurt us, share our money and time and resources on other people—even people we don’t know.  Frost makes the case that there have been weird Christians throughout history.  These are people God has used in amazing, unbelievable, supernatural ways.  They did not act “normal”.  He says all Christians should be eccentric, because we no longer put self in the center of our world, but instead we put God in the center and orbit around Him. 

Frost writes with an enjoyable easy-to-read style, even while explaining history and theology.  He is very convincing, so that by the end of the book the reader is prepared to get rid of normalcy and complacency and follow Christ with abandon and dare to be weird.  Each chapter ends with questions for consideration which can be used for personal reflection or a group discussion.