The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns

Take the former CEO of Lenox and have God challenge him with the gospel and you'll end up with The Hole in Our Gospel.

Richard Stearns uses his personal adventure and growth to challenge the rest of us to do what God expects of us and change the world.

What does Christianity mean to you? Does it mean just going to a building on Sunday, reading parts of the Bible and maybe not being as bad as others?

We seem to be returning to this idea that there's more to having faith in Jesus than just learning about him. We seem to be going back to the idea of once you become a trusting follower of Jesus, you then make that trust evident. You do works.

And "works" is a very bad word in Evangelical circles. We follow the salvation by faith and not works. But we seem to forget that works is the appropriate response to that salvation.

There's a section of pictures that give faces to the stories you'll read in this book, there's a new section (in the paperback edition) full of Things You Can Do: practical ideas to help spread the good news of Jesus Christ - not just hand out the booklets, but actually do some good in the world.

And perhaps you'll get a stronger grasp of what a follower of Jesus looks like when you study the whole Bible as Stearns did.


This book was provided for review by Thomas Nelson Publishing.