Title: The Desperate Christian
Author: Leigh Crane- Freeman
Genre: Christian
Format: Paperback
Pages: 166 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Series or Stand-Alone: Stand-Alone
Source: Author
To purchase your copy: Amazon
For more info: Author’s Goodreads Page; Author’s Website
Goodreads Summary:
There are churches filled with the Spirit and there are churches filled with the church or with religion. If you are trying to fill your spiritual needs with the latter you will come up empty…and desperate.
Satan has used this spiritual void to alienate Christians not only from church but from a relationship with Christ-but God has other plans. God is using this holy vacuum to move the Desperate Christian away from dependence on the church or another believer and into a powerful, exciting and fulfilling one-on-one relationship with Him. God wants you to take this relationship and share it with His bride, the church.
The Desperate Christian is a handbook for helping you develop this one-on-one relationship with God when there is no church to guide you and no mature believer to teach you.
You will discover:
– Startling proof that you are not alone. There are millions of people discontent with church and starving for authentic spiritual food.
– Eleven questions and answers that will lead you into a closer and more dynamic relationship with God.
– Clues God has given me that I want to share with you that can help you seek His kingdom, enter His rest and live in Christ.
– Spiritual proof of the difference you make when your personal relationship with God is shared with the church.
This book is a very interesting and thought-provoking book. It came at an interesting time for me. Our church has started a book group to discuss a book called The Worship Architect and how we can bring more people back to church – my husband joined this group along with a few others from our church, including the pastor.
The author of this book talks about this and why people are leaving the church. They want and need to find a deeper relationship with God. She feels that a strong faith and relationship from God is what people need and if the church gives them that, perhaps they will come back. I agree that you certainly do need this in a church though I’m not certain that is the sole reason people are not coming to church (but that’s another topic for another time). However, I do agree that a lot of people would grow in their relationship to God if they learned more about His Word. The author says that if we allow God to work through us, we can then bring others to Him. If we are strong in our faith, we will draw others in. I was particularly struck by the passage she quoted from Acts 3:1-9. Reading and understanding the Bible will help with that. All of us are busy, but we need to make the time to do so.
One other item she wrote about also struck a chord with me…
We should give our problems to God. The past couple sermons at my church were on this topic and couldn’t have come at a better time for me – so many things kept falling apart causing us to spend money we really didn’t have to spend. I was feeling a betrayed that problem after problem after problem arose but the sermon and this book tells me – read the Bible – God says you will not be without troubles in your life, but He will be there.
I enjoyed reading this book. It came at a good time for me. I think this will make a great addition for my church to discuss in addition to the book mentioned above. I also recommend this to all believers out there!
4 STARS
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