Review: A Book and Video Course All In One!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
I was surprised by the video lessons.  I didn't expect to find them, and since I read my Kindle books on my computer, it was an easy link to the videos for me.  I was reading this book as part of stretching my faith and exploring outside the normal scope of my own ministry style, counseling style, and church style.  I do believe it is useful to step outside your "normal" from time to time to see how faith is walked out in other churches and by other ministers.Lately, I've been building relationships with Christians who worship and walk out their faith very differently from what we do at QXChurch.  We're known as a "tool box church."  I teach a lot of skills and techniques to fill a tool box with whatever you might need.  We rely upon the supernatural intervention by God minimally, and, rather, look for our own responsibility and the ways things work.  Some of my current relationships and my reading is challenging me to stretch in new directions.This book was part of that.  It may not be how I do it, but I appreciate the expansion of MY tool box!  Much of the book happens to fit in with a series I'm preaching on Resilient Faith - even though I did not intentionally seek out a book for that purpose.  As I type this, I'm listening to one of the lessons in the audio link.A surprising amount of useful information!  Content-wise in the physical book, I might have given it four stars - but the whole course of free, included videos was a wonderful bonus - and thus my five star rating.  I think this book would be a blessing for those who know that it would be a good idea to build strong, experiential faith BEFORE you have a Crisis of Faith!  (The series Resilient Faith I'm preaching on right now is what you do with you and with Christians you know you have lost their faith.)