Out Live Your Life by Max LucadoAdmittedly, I am not a big non-fiction reader - but, after all - this is a Max Lucado book. I have several Lucado books on my bookshelf- ones that sound so interesting, but I have never read them. I think I will have to change that now!
In Out Live Your Life, we walk through Acts and the commission to the disciples to go out and "change the world". God didn't send Jesus to earth as a prince - he came as the son of a humble carpenter. In the same way, Christ didn't call kings, and princes to follow him. He called simple men, fishermen, tax collectors - regular people called to an extraordinary mission. Today - God can use any one who will follow Him to His purpose. He calls regular people - you and me - to do the extraordinary - to go out and make a difference. Lucado walks us through ways that we can be change the world - even with something as simple as prayer.
I actually loved this book. For a non-fiction girl it was very easy to read and didn't talk over the head of a non-theologian. I have always felt that God's plan for me is to serve others, but it is so easy to get caught up in the "Oh - I can't do that, that is for the seminarians and for those who can committ to 10 years living in the rain forrest." But - we can all impact this world for the kingdom. Something as simple as praying for a country, to carrying an extra sandwich in the car to give to the person holding the sign at the highway exit, to basketball/cheer camps in the lower east side of Manhattan, to medical clinics in the Ukraine. There are people in need everywhere and we are called to love them.
"None of u can help everyone. But all of us can help someone. And, when we help them, we serve Jesus.
Who would want to miss a chance to do that?"
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