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No but I’m always looking for a good book. Can anyone say if it’s worth it?

Have you read it lanman?
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Yes, just a little FYI about the book. It is authored by a Southern Baptist Pastor whose outlook on church was changed while working with underground house churches in Asia. He came back to America and saw our Americanized Christianity as being soft and weak. He first challenged the congregation he pastored to have a radical faith. This book is a challenge to American Christians as a whole to have a radical faith.

It is obviously a very protestant book, but I would love to hear what a devout Catholic thinks of the premise. This isn’t a book of theology. It is a book that challenges the reader to take the next step in faith and service by being different than our American culture.

Thinking about Rich Mullins in the music thread I started got me thinking about this book. Rich Mullins had a radical faith.
 
lanman87 said:
Yes, just a little FYI about the book. It is authored by a Southern Baptist Pastor whose outlook on church was changed while working with underground house churches in Asia. He came back to America and saw our Americanized Christianity as being soft and weak. He first challenged the congregation he pastored to have a radical faith. This book is a challenge to American Christians as a whole to have a radical faith.

It is obviously a very protestant book, but I would love to hear what a devout Catholic thinks of the premise. This isn’t a book of theology. It is a book that challenges the reader to take the next step in faith and service by being different than our American culture.

Thinking about Rich Mullins in the music thread I started got me thinking about this book. Rich Mullins had a radical faith.
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Very interesting, is ill have to look into it.
 
I know many Catholics and Protestants who have a radical Christian faith…meaning that they take their faith seriously and prayerfully pick up their cross out of love for the Lord every day.

Good for that pastor!

I am thankful that my pastor gives radical homilies to challenge us!
 
My close friend is reading it now with his prayer group. I’ve read the first two chapters.

Basically, if you’re comfortable living in your house and living out the American dream then do not read this book. It’s extremely convicting and may make you wanna get up and start preaching in foreign countries or something. Lol.

It’s weighing heavy on a lot of people’s minds who have read it, because the entire book is basically about how American Christianity (in Evangelical circles and elsewhere) have been sugar coating the gospel; making people believe that living life like everyone else and saying “I’m saved because I’m a Christian” then not following the great commandment is enough.

It starts by explaining the harder sayings of Jesus. Including the man who wanted to bury his father, and the one who wanted to say by to his family. It leans heavily on Matthew 28:19 and asks are you doing what Jesus commands or not!

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Matthew 28:19‭-‬20 ESV
 
I have heard from friends that it is St. Francis of Assisi recycled.
 
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