And The Shofar Blew

Title: And the Shofar Blew
Author: Francine Rivers
Genre: Fiction

Paul Hudson is a associate pastor at a solid, growing church when he agrees to pastor Centerville Christian Church, and their small, struggling congregation. Packing up his wife Eunice and their son Timmy, they travel to Centerville to finally see with their own eyes their new church and the parsonage they will live in. Along the way they make several new friends including Samuel and Abigal Mason.

Before long the church is literally transformed, attendance sky-rockets, the choir grows, and the children's program reaches record high numbers. But, somewhere between the building program and Sheila Atherton, Paul winds his way in a different direction and is faced with some difficult and serious choices to make.

Throughout the story, Francine Rivers brings in an array of different characters that all interact with the main characters of Paul and Eunice on many different levels. This gives the readers a nice large picture of what is going on. I've heard different comments on this book that possibly could put the church in a bad light. My personal opinion is that a Christian would best understand what is being written because as all Christians know...we all make mistakes and we are not perfect. Also, I just took the book for what it was, a fiction story. It's not a story directed to, or about any one person or any one church. Comments welcome!