This book was years in the making for me reading it. When we first got married (2003), Todd really wanted me to read this book, but I just wasn't there in my understanding or caring about these things.
So I picked it back up again a few months ago and have finished it. I really enjoyed. It certainly did a great job messing with me and what I have always found to be true about what it means to be a Christian.
After reading different books by Shane Claiborne, Rob Bell, & others, I was interested and eager to learn what Jim Wallis had to say. Wallis is a pretty great leader, he's been doing this for 30 some years, and helped found the community Sojourners. He's written many books like God's Politics, Waging Peace and Peacemakers, and The Ministers Manual. He is all about social equality, ending poverty, living in community, and ending war.
Here is a foretaste of this awesome, life changing book:
"Jesus talked more about wealth and poverty than almost any other subject, including heaven and hell, sexual morality, the law, or violence. One out of every ten verses in the Synoptic Gospels is about the rich and the poor; in Luke, the ratio is one our of seven. Thus , the subject of money, possessions, and the poor is hardly a casual concern or passing interest to the biblical writers. The Bible is literally filled with it. In the midst of our study, we began to wonder why the topic had been so completely ignored in all of our church upbringings."
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