Book Review: The Rest of God
Monday, January 8, 2007
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Got this book as a gift for being a venue pastor at Saddleback this past year, and I was pretty excited to read it. Everyone was raving as they opened up the gifts and the concept of rest and sabbath is always a good conversation to have. Since I didn't want this to end up ironically on the "I don't have time to read" shelf, I dug in.
The book is pretty good - I honestly would recommend What Matters Most from Fields over on Simply Youth Ministry much more, that is a far quicker read and gets to the point a little faster - plus, it's written specifically with youth workers in mind. The Rest of God does take into account the pressures of ministry and how often we collapse at the end of a weekend and eventually are forced to retire to escape the pressures anmd accumulation of day-to-day ministry. That I get, and the book if anything is encouraging in the pursuit of a balanced life that is continually in rest, peace and dependency on God.
All in all an important concept I appreciate, but not a book I'm going to be recommending like it was recommended to me. C+
And sorry I can't give this away to one of the commenters on the post as I typically would - it has a nice message on the inside from the person who gifted it to me, so I need to keep this one. Maybe next time!
JG
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1 Comments:
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At 1/08/2007,
Folkestad said...
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I'll comment even though there isn't a free book coming my way! J/k. I need to pick up a copy of Doug's book! I was actually thinking about getting The Rest of God, looks like I should go with Doug's first. Thanks man!
