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Highly Recommended

MARCH 17, 2012

Our Sunday School teacher in our local Church of the Nazarene has The Hole in our Gospel on her required reading list. Am I glad that it was my first selection? You soon discover not just a hole in your gospel but a gaping one. The book, complete with annecdotal evidence is a call to action. How can anyone read about little Vikas in India and Morgan and Jackson in Zambia and not be moved to help? The question the author's children asked him as he told them about Vikas is the same question we all hear from the pages of the book: "Can't you do something?"
ERROL WILLIAMS

What's Missing

MARCH 08, 2012

Extremely impressed with the work-- SO COMPLETE. Gives hope and means for the wholeness of humanity. I gave as a result... very little... and was SO BLESSED!
DORIS HACHAC

Transformation

JANUARY 15, 2012

While I was aware of all of the information that was presented in this book, the inspiration was missing. Stearns breathes hope into hopelessness. The Hole in Our Gospel will transform the Gospel for you.
DUSTIN TURNER

Package in the mail

JANUARY 04, 2012

I went to the mail box yesterday and found a package from my dear friend Chris, a shipmate who I befriended in the Navy. Inside the package was a book, "the Hole in our Gospel." God works in many ways. I wonder where he is taking me today.
ED CARMINE

Shellhammer - Shorter Than a Midget

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Shellhammer - Shorter Than a Midget, author John Smith, chronicles the effect of accepting Jesus's love on the attitude of a man suffering from Achondroplasia.
MYRONE JACKSON

Changed Forever

DECEMBER 01, 2011

Recently, my church gave me a copy of “The Hole In Our Gospel”, by Richard Stearns. It was uncomfortable to read and spiritually uplifting at the same time. More than any news article, this book has opened my eyes to what true poverty is as well as the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. I grew up in the era of celebrities on television posing with starving children and flies swarming around them. I have always wanted to help, but I was sure that the money was being used to pay for TV cameras or was being squandered on other things, instead of actually feeding people. I guess you could say I thought it was a scam. I didn’t want to be a sucker. But as I read the book, every “yeah, but…” that I came up with was answered. “Yeah, but…most of the money is wasted on salaries and private jets.” For me, the first step was trust. I don’t think I can explain exactly why I decided to trust World Vision, but I did. Perhaps it was the financial numbers showing 85% of their operating expenses go to the programs that are actually on the ground helping. “Yeah, but…I’m not wealthy. Let the millionaires handle the extra giving.” When I read that ‘if you make $25k/year, you are RICH compared to the rest of the world’, it changed my perspective on who were the “have’s” and who were the “have not’s”. “Yeah, but…there are millions starving. What can I possibly do?” Richard Stearns used an analogy in the book about starfish washed up on the shore. There were millions of them and when a man saw another throwing them back into the water one by one, he asked what difference can you possibly make? The other man replied, “It made a difference to that one, didn’t it?” “Yeah, but…times are tough. I don’t have room in my budget to sponsor a child.” Even as I said that to myself, I knew it was just an excuse. I began to look at our household budget and categorize spending into “needs vs. wants”. I was paying $35/month for a gym membership…that I never used! And there was so much more waste. I was ashamed of myself. I could go on and on with the “yeah, but’s”, but to close, thank you again for the book. It has changed me.
DANNY YOUNGBLOOD