My husband was given this book as a gift from someone he has learned to respect in only a short amount of time. He read it several months ago and began to change his views on the world, the way he views the Church, and the way he interprets "living for God." I have seen remarkable changes in him--a full hearted commitment to a God he knows exists and a commitment to the world to show them that this God exists.
The author Eric is a friend of our friend; a friend who will continue to shape and change the way my husband lives and ultimately the way I live as I follow him through this life.
I have picked up this book now. It is about Eric's journey as a modern day prophet so-to-speak and his relationship with God. As a modern Christian who grew up on the Bible, learning the stories and reading the history of God, I will be facing realities of God as a living God and not a God of just the Bible. Already five chapters in, I am in disbelief that this can happen in today's world. That prophets still exist. Our world is skeptical, unwilling to believe anything supernatural. This book challenges that. Eric writes, "the problem is that Jesus is more real to people as a past figure of history than as a present reality." Even to Christians today, that is true. Why?
My faith will be challenged and what I think I believe to be true will be redefined. Wish me luck!
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