As an Agnostic I thought that the book would be interesting to read, which is one of the reasons I chose it. The others being that it was written in English and I wanted a book that was written in English to practice my English skills. The other reason was that it was relatively short and cheap, so it wouldn’t get too hard and easy to give up.
Sadly the book holds virtually nothing interesting in it. Generally every chapter involves a problem, they pray and then God solves it and gives them the money, etcetera which they needed. I strongly dislike books like this as it makes Christianity seem like a vending machine. There is generally nothing that involves trying to find God, as the characters always accept Jesus in their life during the first second they hear about him or they are born in a family that has always had a Jesus in their life.
To further add the offense, the book is sure telling that arrogance is very bad, and one should not let his/her ambitiousness get in the way of God, even if the purpose is good. However this devastated in the end of the book, which is flooding with arrogance and ambitiousity. It’s telling about the slightest detail that the YWAM has committed and probably trying to make it sound more glorious as well.
I started to think that they crossed the line when they stated that God gave the YVAM’s starving members fish from the sea on four sequential days in row, the last “delivery” involved nearly ten thousand fish just jumping out of the water like that.
However there was one statement which I liked, which was something along the lines that one should not trust the visions of others which God gives to them, because they might misunderstand it and if it’s important God will tell it to the person personally. This is unfortunately ignored by a lot of people.
Not to forget that if they wanted people to find God or hear about how much good their organization has created, why would they make a dozen of books and sell them to people who might not have money for that? It’s not like giving away free books would hurt them seeing how much they brag about their achievements in third world countries and so on.
The worst part was however yet to come, they actually went as far as comparing starving African children to punk-rockers who live in Japan.
Thankfully the book was short, if it was more than 160 pages I would probably have given up reading it.
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