I was just given the awesome opportunity to review Max Lucado’s new book “Outlive Your Life”. Excited to read anything written by the master wordsmith, I expected to rush through it hungrily. This book, though, must be savored slowly. It is thought provoking and potentially life changing.
Max Lucado takes us to the book of Acts and with his unique ability to put one right in the middle of the action, makes us charter members of the first church. Then, with his amazing story-telling twists, we are catapulted into the present where we are presented with the stark reality that we are no different from those struggling New Testament Christians we have been reading about. God is the same God today that He has always been - He still has the same power and still answers prayer in the same way. So what has changed? Why does the church today not look like the church in the book of Acts?
This book is a challenge to us as individuals to reexamine the world around us for opportunities to put into practice what we say we believe. To see people in a different light than we ever have before. We can actually begin to see traces of the different characters from the New Testament church in those around us; glimmers of hope, doors of opportunity where before we only saw hopelessness.
I encourage everyone to pick this book up and read it. But beware: you will be different when you put it down.
Max Lucado takes us to the book of Acts and with his unique ability to put one right in the middle of the action, makes us charter members of the first church. Then, with his amazing story-telling twists, we are catapulted into the present where we are presented with the stark reality that we are no different from those struggling New Testament Christians we have been reading about. God is the same God today that He has always been - He still has the same power and still answers prayer in the same way. So what has changed? Why does the church today not look like the church in the book of Acts?
This book is a challenge to us as individuals to reexamine the world around us for opportunities to put into practice what we say we believe. To see people in a different light than we ever have before. We can actually begin to see traces of the different characters from the New Testament church in those around us; glimmers of hope, doors of opportunity where before we only saw hopelessness.
I encourage everyone to pick this book up and read it. But beware: you will be different when you put it down.
I reviewed your review, and in my view, it's so true! MSA
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