User:Kimberlygfrancis/Weapon of Mass Dysfunction

A non-fiction book written by Ed Francis about the events leading up to and after the theft of $800,000 from the Fellowship at Forest Creek in Round Rock, Texas. Pastor Donald "Roddy" Clyde structured the church after the Purpose Driven model started by Pastor Rick Warren. The results in Pastor Roddy’s case were catastrophic as things were placed above people time and time again.

Mr. Francis examines the deep decline in Christian credibility and how many believers have replaced a desire to live authentically with the phony business-like relationships found in exclusiveness and excess.

Worship of Mass Dysfunction relates Mr. Francis’ decade of dysfunction while serving under a Purpose-Driven pastor who was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing from the people who trusted him to lead his church in Jesus’ name.

Mr. Francis provides a sobering look into a world where Christians aren't always the way we like to portray ourselves. It's honest. Some of it isn’t pretty, but life gets messy and he’s captured the pain and frustration of working with church leadership unwilling to acknowledge their flawed philosophy found in Rick Warren‘s model of a Purpose-Driven church.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/williamson/entries/2008/10/02/round_rock_pastor_sentenced_to.html

http://www.wmdthebook.com