Well I’m curious as to the relevance of the title of MacArthur’s book is. It does seem quite apparent to me that we are having a “truth war” both in our culture and in the church (there’s that one fellow everyone insists is completely irrelevant to a certain movement despite the millions of books he sells and millions of hits his website gets, for example), so one can’t really accuse the title of his book of having no connection to reality. And it does seem to me that our culture should matter to us somewhat as inhabitants and members of it…citizens of two kingdoms, if you will. So it’s hard to argue that a Christian should not write about such a subject.

I’m no MacArthur fan by any stretch of the imagination. I could write plenty of material criticizing works I’ve read by him that would probably go way beyond anything you would write in terms of polemics…but I’m not going to slam a book I haven’t read or say “Yeah, Jesus would never write a book with that title!” There are a lot of things Jesus probably wouldn’t do, but I’ve never thought WWJD? was a clever question.