E.W. Kenyon - The True Story

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Summary: Excellent Read!! An Important Contribution!!
Review: "E. W. Kenyon - The True Story" is an amazing slice of late 19th C. and early 20th C. church history. The narrative is wonderfully engaging. This book is a great read! In the face of biting, acrimonious criticism of the Faith Message that Kenyon advocated, McIntyre offers a reasoned and grace-filled response. This book communicates an important message that demands a wide readership. Some of the themes are controversial but McIntyre unpacks them with the skill of a surgeon. In so doing, the author provides a clear rationale for the biblical message of Faith - a message that has been largely abandoned by a huge segment of the Church! This book will challenge you!

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Summary: McIntyre Sets the Record Straight
Review: Having read several of Kenyon's life-changing books, McIntyre's book is an extremely interesting read. The book is well-written and is extremely well researched and documented. With a wealth of quotes, anecdotes, and details of Kenyon's life heretofore unpublished, McIntyre totally disarms the critics, removes misconceptions about the message of faith, and properly restores Kenyon's reputation as one of the finest of God's end time writers.

If you are one of the many Christians whose ears have been poisoned by listening to other misguided ministers malign and criticize E.W. Kenyon's books as heretical, you owe it to yourself to read this book! From it, you get a glimpse of Kenyon's heart and motivation in writing his books, his great love for his Lord and for people, and solid proof that Kenyon's message was firmly planted in orthodox soil. (In my opinion, anyone who labels Kenyon as heretical after reading McIntyre's book is attempting to willfully misunderstand Kenyon's writings.)

I would highly recommend any honest, thirsting heart that wants to know God better and anyone who wants to be everything that God wants him to be in Christ, to read all of E.W. Kenyon's books. The revelation that Kenyon unveils in the Word of God makes "ordinary" Christianity extraordinary, and will totally change the person who grabs hold of it. No wonder the devil hates Kenyon's books!

Thank you, Joe McIntyre, for writing this book and "setting the record straight." Proverbs 18:17, John 7:51

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Summary: Don't Waste Either Your Time Or Money On This!!!
Review: Joe McIntyre - himself a Word of Faith teacher indoctrinated by the Faith movement - endeavors to present the "unbiased" truth about Christianity's Faith movement by telling what he claims is the "true" story of Faith founder, E.W. Kenyon. The problem, however, is that McIntyre tells this true story by out and out fabricating. He claims to be responding to "heresy hunters," but he does so by misrepresenting them at least FIVE times by my own count. Don't take my word for it, just check out his footnotes to find that he misrepresents people. But here's the best story of them all.

One of the sources cited by McIntyre contains information that contradicts what he says regarding Kenyon's death in 1948. He knows the information that contradicts him exists, but instead of acknowledging this fact, he simply doesn't mention it and then tells what he says is the "true" story of Kenyon. This fact alone disqualifies this book from being anything more than a reference so that Faith followers can say that questions are answered that HAVEN'T been answered.

But supposing McIntyre told the truth, here's something we learn by reading this book: E.W. Kenyon took aspirin - despite being "healed by Jesus' stripes" (p. 170). He suffered at one time from peritonitis (chapter 6). He was divorced even though he could manipulate his circumstances by "having what he said" (pp. 154-156). It appears that in telling the "true" story of E.W. Kenyon, we found that the message he proclaimed - and is still proclaimed today - is anything BUT true.