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Take your relationship with God to the next level, December 3, 2007
This review is from: God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul (Paperback)
I was ready for more - this book inspired me to believe deeper and helped every step of the way! I got so excited about it I referred about 30 others and they all bought it and devoured it as well! Tommy Tenney does a great job of being very specific - and keeping it exciting...I couldn't wait to read more and did not want to put it down! I am desparate for the Presence of God...and it is contagious! I liked having all three parts in one book - this will be the only book you need, it has the journal right in it!
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Change your life, March 31, 2008
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This is a well written and encouraging book. I had some difficulty sorting through the various editions on Amazon but this is the exact book I was looking for as it contains the original, the personal study guide and devotional journal.
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Try not to be discouraged as you read this book, August 7, 2009
This review is from: God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul (Paperback)
To be honest, I am only about halfway through reading The God Chasers on my Kindle, but felt the need to share some thoughts I've had so far.
I was excited when I initially started reading - I was inspired by the response to God's manifest presence that the author shared, and have started praying for that in my own life and my own church. I was also impressed with his enthusiasm and excitement over what has been revealed to him. But I am also finding myself discouraged the more I read.
There is a time when we need to be told that we are being willfully disobedient and need to stop what we are doing. But there are also times - and I think this accuonts for most - when we are doing things not to be willfully disobedient, but because we have grown accustomed to doing certain things in certain ways, and have grown complacent because those things and ways have grown familiar and comfortable. When that happens we need some encouragement - and perhaps a good jolt - to snap us out of our complacent comfort zone and move on.
I will confess that my personal weakness is to approach things from that perspective - I am more likely to try to encourage someone than to consider an alternative than to say in no uncertain terms, "This needs to change". But I am sensitive to discouragement and prefer a softer approach, so I find his book more and more discouraging as I read it.
Certainly we are not perfect - hopefully we are all praying and working towards becoming more Christ-like each day (and when I say "working" I mean fighting against the human tendencies that make us want to do the things God does not want us to). But the feeling I get from my reading is that we are being intentionally disobedient, and that he is condemning us for it - or very nearly so - but that he is OK with doing that because he used to do things the same way.
For example: when David was having the Ark of the Covenant brought back, and Uzzah was killed when he reached out to steady it after the oxen stumbled - the author says it happened because God had placed a stumbling block in their path in order for them to slow down and ask if they were doing the right thing, and if they were doing it in the right way. He seems to conclude that they were not supposed to be moving the ark at that time because they were not holy enough and did not respect the vessel as they should. That may or may not be the case, but the author seems quick to condemn David and the people for their faults and failures, and us for ours.
When the adulterous woman was about to be stoned, Jesus told her that He did not condemn her, and told her to leave her life of sin. I would find this book easier to digest if the author approached his subject in the same manner. He could use his enthusiasm for what has been revealed, to encourage us to change our way of thinking and "doing church". Yes, we could and should be further along than we are; but the constant discouragement and judgmental tone distracts and detracts from the excellent points he is trying to make.
Thank you for bearing with my personal sensitivities in this particular review.
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