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Great for training and discipleship, September 14, 2010
This review is from: Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus (Paperback)
I highly recommend this book. Floyd McClung is in a unique place to speak about healthy discipleship (after his key leadership role with YWAM and years of missionary experience and church planting work). Although the book is just being released in the U.S., we were able to get a copies of the South African version at the beginning of the year and we started using the book with our Discipleship Training School at the church here in Fort Worth. The book is built around following Jesus and living life by three great loves (core values)... Loving Jesus, Loving Each Other, and Loving Those Who Don't Know Christ. Based on the way the book was received in the Spring semester, we are using it again (the U.S. version this time) and it is already proving to be a great help in getting to the key issues of practical discipleship.
"Follow" will be a great resource for personal discipleship and growth, for helping someone else or a few others in a small group focused on discipleship, or even in a larger class or training environment (like we're doing). Highly recommended. : )
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Full of Solid Biblical Truths that when Live Out will Change the World, October 11, 2010
This review is from: Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus (Paperback)
McClung structures his book around three basic characteristics: Loving God, Loving Others, and Loving those who don't know Jesus. All truths he presents flow from these three basic ideas. He focuses first on how we as believers can align our lives with the person of Jesus, allowing our lives to be shaped in different areas such as humility, obedience, and prayer. I personally enjoyed his chapter on prayer where he includes several different practical strategies of prayer that he has learned from his years of ministry.
The middle section of Follow focuses on loving those who don't know Jesus. In this section, McClung tells of how we can practically live like Jesus - to not ask the question, "What would Jesus do" but instead to ask the question, "What is Jesus doing" and how can I be a part today. Also, he goes into detail about how evangelism can and is to look in our modern day society and around the world including practical tips to overcome fear and other hindrances that we as believers often face.
If you love Jesus and have any passion to see the nations reached, as you should, then the final section will make you want to throw the book on the floor, and run out your front door to tell the world about Jesus. Seriously, I could not go to bed last night when I finished the book. I reiterated to my wife again how Jesus is going to change the world, and how God created our family to be a part of it today. We both got excited.
Ultimately, McClung's new book Follow has the potential to challenge every believer to deeper levels in Christ and to stir up a passion to see God's kingdom come here on earth as it is in heaven. From his admonitions in the final chapters about how God created us to live in a committed community, to finding people of peace, and ultimately seeing a church-planting movement that radically transforms society and touches the four corners of the earth, this book touches it all.
Want to create world-changers in people? Get the values in this book ingrained in the lives of those around you - they are straight from the Word. If I had one negative thing to say about the book it is that Floyd McClung does not come with it so that I can thank him for articulating these timeless values of scripture into a book where we can all find gain.
Have fun reading it and be blessed!
Also, see the Follow promotional video Floyd McClung created describing his purpose for writing this book on YouTube.
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The coach says, "You can do it"., January 5, 2011
This review is from: Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus (Paperback)
After reading Floyd McClung's latest book, "Follow", I reflected on the words of the legendary Green Bay Packer's football coach, Vince Lombardi. "Gentlemen, this is a football." He didn't care how much experience they had or what they knew, he would start them in training camp at the basic fundamentals until his team became Super Bowl Champions. Just so with McClung's book. It doesn't matter if you are a gray haired missionary or new believer, Mr. McClung is intent on making sure you know how to walk with God, hear His voice and obey Him. He shares his own blunders as well as his successes in such a way that says, "You can do this. You can walk with God." He caps the book off with an outline of how to start a 'simple church'. I could not read it quickly. Not because it was complicated, but because I felt myself being challenged in multiple areas of my life, to live what I know. Get it. Read it. Do it.
David Henry
Broken Arrow, OK
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