I’m happy to announce that my new book REVISE US AGAIN: Living From a Renewed Christian Script is now available.
This book was born on the anvil of three decades of spiritual experiences, struggles, observations, suffering, failures, questions, reflections, and the insights that are born from each. As such, it contains both light and shade. 
The book is unlike anything else I’ve written to date. And it’s the shortest as well (only 176 pages). It is written for all Christians in every denomination, movement, and church structure.
Unlike From Eternity to Here and Jesus Manifesto, it doesn’t contain the element of the sublime. Nor it is written to the right brain.
Unlike Pagan Christianity, Reimagining Church, Finding Organic Church, and The Untold Story of the New Testament Church, it’s not a book about the church or church practice.
Instead, REVISE US AGAIN explores ten vital issues of our faith that work at the unconscious (subterraneal) level. Issues that are rarely addressed today. Some of the chapters include: “Being Captured by the Same Spirit You Oppose” … “Your Christ is Too Small” … “What’s Wrong With Our Gospel?” … “The Felt-Presence of God” … “The God of Unseen Endings” … “Revising the Holy Spirit’s Ministry” … “Let Me Pray About It: Revising Christian Code Language” … “The Lord Told Me: Revising Christianeze.”
The book isn’t written as a story. The chapters don’t build upon one another. The book is a collection of essays written at different times and places. But they are all tied together by the theme of rescripting and revising.
Click here to watch the video trailer
Click here to listen to an interview I did on the book with CBD (Christian Books)
Click here to read a print interview where I discuss the problems and solutions in the book
Click here to read endorsements and reviews
I hope this little book draws you closer to our magnificent Lord and acts as a tool for Him to gain more for Himself in all of us.
Excerpts from the book:
LOL! Always wanted to learn how to write. good one Frank.
Frank,
Again, your writing is spot on. You are able to put words to the cry of the Body of Christ. We long to be “Revived” in the purity and holiness we were created to live in and live out daily.
Thank you.
Frank, I remember as a child adults discussing who they ought to pray to, and whether they ought to pray to the Holy Spirit (“Pray to the Father in Jesus’ name!” they’d insist). This is the same feeling I get when reading Chapter 9, Stripping Down to Christ Alone. It seems to me that the Father and the Holy Spirit are “overwhelmed” by Christ here even while you say, “So while I’m post-Charismatic, I’m certainly not post-Holy Spirit!” Later you write, “To my mind, the Holy Spirit has but one job: to reveal, to make known, to magnify, to glorify, and to make central and supreme the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Is this actually what you believe is the Holy Spirit’s sole work? Or is this merely your pushing against your past beliefs? It may be, since I have never been Charismatic, that it is difficult for me to understand your push back in this chapter. It seems as if you diminish the Holy Spirit in order to elevate Christ.
Thanks,
Scott Lyons
Scott: To say that the Spirit glorifies, reveals, and forms Christ into us in no way diminishes His role. It actually exalts it. Have you read the post I wrote called “50 Things the Holy Spirit does?” http://frankviola.org/2010/11/18/50-things-the-holy-spirit-does/ –
All of those 50 things explain *how* the Spirit makes the Christ a living reality in the believer and in the church. Hope that helps.
Thank you, Frank. “To say that the Spirit glorifies, reveals, and forms Christ into us in no way diminishes His role. It actually exalts it.” I agree. This statement aligns more with my understanding – to have Christ formed in us that we participate in the life of God – this is the clarification I was looking for. I’m not sure this same emphasis is evident in Ch 9, but I also understand that you were not writing a treatise on the holy Trinity there.
I had not seen the “50 Things” post; I’m largely unfamiliar with your other work. I appreciate your pointing me over there.
I appreciate your time and the book itself. There’s valuable stuff there.
Peace,
Scott Lyons
I would like to purchase your book from you. However, I don’t make purchases thru the Internet. Do you accept personal checks? If so, to whom shall I make the check payable and what is the mailing address? Also, please advise about taxes & shipping & handling. Thank you.
Carol: if you live in the USA, you can purchase the books and CDs by check or money order here: http://www.ptmin.org/orderform.htm
Finished it Frank, thank you for writing it. I believe I am revised a bit. I needed to hear several of the messages you presented on topics like “The felt-presence of God” and the “legalism.” Also about what happens after you have a new revelation of Jesus, oh and pretty much everything else in the book. Some very timely messages for me. Again, thank you.
Hi Frank, I received it today, but I won’t be able to start reading it until tonight. (I’ve got a lot of kids…) From the comments so far, I am going to assume it’ll be great as usual.
Thanks a lot.
Ant
Almost done. Very easy to read. Incredible so far!
Finished it last night. Quick read. Amazing book, Frank! I put it in the same category as “Crazy Love” and “Radical,” but it’s deeper and goes into areas that few books talk about. Thanks for writing it. I’m going to recommend it to every follower I know.
Finished this book today…and after going over my notes…I have come to the conclusion that it is really a gentle series of rebukes…that we should appreciate. (Prov. 9:8)
To the degree that I was open to be changed…I saw a common theme of pursuing a fresh ongoing personal knowing of Christ (leading me examining my own ways) ….and that this is to better add to the corporate pursuit…which was described as a more full and balanced expression of Christ.
Much of pursuing Christ in this fashion…means dropping some of the old habits and hardened ways in which we interact with other believers…and even the Holy Spirit…habits that may have accrued in our times with certain denominations…or at least knowing that we, along with everyone else, have been influenced by church history…both the good and the bad…
The book gives particular insight into areas or ways that help us “allow others to take off our grave clothes” and “throw off that which easily entangles us” so that we can run a little lighter, more free and clear…on pursuing The Prize – which is not just the Christ we have known…but the Christ that wants to reveal Himself continually anew.
Thanks Frank, for living by His life…and pointing to Him.
Thanks Russ. Appreciate the kind words. I like this analysis. Though I view the overall message as more an encouraging challenge than a “rebuke” . . . challenges that have come out of my own struggles, mistakes, observations, and failures as well as observations and lessons from the Lord. So glad you found it valuable. I hope others read it as well.
Frank, thanks for this clarification, the book sounds really interesting. The phrases at the unconscious (subterraneal) level and born on the anvil of three decades of spiritual experiences, struggles, observations, suffering, failures, questions, reflections, and the insights that are born from each didn’t fit with a purely analytical approach. Anyway, I’m sure it will feed our spritual life!
Frank,
How faithful is your theology to the Bible itself? The message that Jesus preached throughout the Hebrew and Christian Greek Scriptures was the ‘gospel of the kingdom’, a message about His Messianic Kingdom that would come and put away, or crush all these other earthly kingdoms and establish Him as King upon Mount Zion with his Bride, the Church, as His co-rulers. (Daniel 2:44) It is this Gospel of the Kingdom that seems to have been forgotten by today’s churches, most proclaim a Gospel of Jesus Christ, and forget that Jesus did not preach a message about Himself, but about His Coming Kingdom that would solve all mankind’s problems and put all back on the road to salvation. (Isaiah chapter 35) Yes, it is the Messianic Kingdom, of which Christ is King, that we should look too. Yes, a message about the person of Jesus Christ may be called the ‘good news’ or the ‘gospel’, but such was NOT the Gospel as taught by the Savior Himself and the early church. (Acts chapter 3) Are you preaching the “Gospel of the Kingdom” and the Good News about His Coming Kingdom, or something else? I’d be interested to know.
Eric: I answer your question fully in “Jesus Manifesto” http://www.theJesusManifesto.com – it’s a mistake to separate the kingdom of God from Christ Himself. Jesus, the King, embodies the kingdom. The Father spoke of the Son, the Spirit speaks of the Son, and Jesus Himself spoke of Himself just as much as He did the kingdom, for they cannot be separated, “The Son of man . . . ” “I am the . . . ” “As the living Father has sent ME . . .” In this way, Paul’s gospel of Christ and the gospel that Jesus preached are one and the same. More details in “Jesus Manifesto.”
Here’s a left-brain hemisphere remark for you.
To improve clarity you will want to say “Nor it is written to the left brain” as that is where more of the analytical processing happens, whereas the right hemisphere is more intuitive/artistic etc. I think that is what you mean to say.
Blessings big brother!
Peter: “Jesus Manifesto” and “From Eternity to Here” are metaphorical, image-based, and paint pictures with words. Thus they are written to the right brain, while “Revise Us Again” is not.
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Frank, can I have a copy of this book in pdf format ? how much will it cost ?
tq
Andi: The book will be on Kindle in the future. Not sure when though. Kindle versions can be read with a PDF reader I believe. See the post after this one which lists all my books on Kindle.
So excited! Some new meat to chew on! Waiting for kindle version.
Frank,
Glad to hear your putting a new one out.
Do you have help doing research? Or do you do all the research yourself?
Do you have an editor? Or do you self edit?
Have you had any writing classes?
Michael: thx. Do most research myself, but I’ve receive help from friends and professors over the years. My publishers supply the editors to work with. Never taken a writing class. Perhaps I should. I’ve always wanted to learn how to write.
Just bought my copy off Amazon! Excited!
Excellent–I’m excited! I’ll be grabbing that Kindle version.
Yay! This is exciting.
AWESOME looking forward to reading it.
Sounds great! Can’t wait to read it. Love those chapter titles!
Really looking forward to it!