Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers - by Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Activists Claiborne and Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do. --from the Introduction Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief. If you hope to see God change society, you must be an ordinary radical who prays--and then is ready to become the answer to your own prayers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Claiborne and Wilson-Hartgrove, radical Christians who see the danger of burnout and spiritual erosion when those who tend to the marginalized fail to pursue the divine romance that is prayer. The authors use three NT prayers to move the reader outside ordinary assumptions about prayer and challenge us to a deeper relationship with Christ.</p>--Steven Todd, YouthWorker Journal, March/April 2009<br><br><p>Claiborne enlists help from his long-time friend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to address how prayer and activism are related. Take a small group through this book as you prepare for a summer mission opportunity.</p>--Paul Berry, YouthWorker Journal, May/June 2009<br><br><p>It's both rare and refreshing to discover a new perspective on prayer. But if anyone can provide that perspective, it's Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Recommended for anyone interested in social justice, intentional communitites and the new monastics, as well as Christians who have grown beyond books on how to pray and want to learn instead how to live out the prayers they're already praying.</p>--Marcia Ford, Faithful Reader (faithfulreader.com), March 2009<br><br><p>Like these men's other books, it is another awakening (and sometimes embarrassing) reminder that the contemporary American church is not the radical social force it was called to be.</p>--Rachel Pater, Sarcastic Lutheran (sarcasticluteran.typepad.com), March 23, 2009<br><br><p>Prayer is always a difficult topic for Christians to wrap their heads around. I'd recommend the book if you like Shane or Jonathan, or more generally if you are passionate in areas of social justice and struggle to connect that with your prayer life.</p>--Eric, Between the Trees, (wordsfromtheway.com/between-the-trees/), October 22, 2008<br><br><p>Readers will never see prayer or community in quite the same way again.</p>--Publisher's Weekly, September 15, 2008<br><br><p>This thoughtful treatise offers a concise taste of Bible study, prayer, and myriad church teachers.</p>--Angelina Conti, Friends Journal, January 2010<br><br><p>We in the church are blessed by the imaginations of Claiborne, Wilson-Hartgrove, and their communities.</p>--Gavin Dluehosh, The Covenant Companion, February 2010<br>
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