Betts writes about his personal experiences and reasons why he left the Methodist Church. He also discusses the controversy around Peake's Commentary of the Bible being included on the list of books accepted for the training of young Methodist probationers, Dr. Fitchett's A Tattered Bible and a Mutilated Christ, the drift away from the churches, evangelism in the Mission to the Nation in 1953, Overend and Joughin's The Book of Books, and Modern Methodism.