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Will Jesus Buy Me A Double-Wide?: ('Cause I Need More Room For My Plasma TV) (2010)

by Karen Spears Zacharias(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0310292506 (ISBN13: 9780310292500)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: In my reading, in watching tv, and in interactions with people (in-person and on social networks), I encounter again and again people who combine "The American Dream" of prosperity (a dream of wealth, health, and more-A WHOLE LOT MORE!) with their beliefs about God. Biblical Christianity isn't about material prosperity. Having a relationship with the Father through the Son, Jesus, is about surrender and about loving God so much that you desire to be involved with Him no matter the cost (discomfort, poverty, self-sacrifice, and/or risk of life). Zacharias has found a way to tackle the American phenomenon of the "prosperity gospel" in a way that is entertaining, enlightening, and spiritually loaded. This is a radical book that sneaks up on you and gets your full attention... more through wonderful, truthful storytelling. I was deeply affected by the portraits of people who have a variety of beliefs on God and money and how the two are related. Such portraits inspired me to do some self-examination about my own beliefs, such that I have grown from the experience.
review 2: This is an extremely timely book that I think all Christians in America should read. It is mostly anecdotes, but backed up with a little explanation and a lot of Scripture. It takes on prosperity theology and squashes the idea that God's cosmic role is to function as a personal banker or an atm. In fact He is not even here to make us healthy and happy all the time. Failure, pain and sadness is not a sign that you have displeased God. What kind of good news would that be? Well written with an excellent balance between humor, intelligence, sensitivity and hard hitting truth. Please read this. Even if you only read the last chapter. "Stop trying to figure out how to increase your bottom line and try to figure out how to please the Lord." [return][return]"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." less

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