In his hip and humorous style, Esau shares what he discovered when he set out to be the hands and feet of Christ. You'll find yourself looking for ways to be the surpris-or in the lives of others---rather than the surpris-ee---and stop being just a spiritual spectator of God's activity in the world! 208 pages, softcover from NavPress.
This intriguing faith experiment begins with a question: What would happen if we allowed Jesus to fully inhabit every part of our being?
The startling answer, chronicled in detail, will encourage and inspire you to impact your world one person at a time.
Disenchanted despite climbing the creative corporate ladder writing jingles for the likes of Target, Honda, and even Golden Grahams, Terry Esau started telling stories about the one thing he knew could change people’s lives: a relationship with God. Terry is the author of Blue Collar God/White Collar God as well as his first faith experiment, Surprise Me . He and his wife, Mary, live in Minnesota.
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5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Jill Jones (Opelika, AL), September 12, 2009
I have to be honest and tell you that I would never have chosen this book to read on my own. I received it to review for NavPress and was immediately impressed with Terry Esau’s faith experiment. I couldn’t put the book down and read a half of this short book in a couple of hours and was so impressed that I ordered his book entitled “Surprise Me”.
Esau believes that we can impact the world one person at a time. He tells stories of how being the surprise has impacted his life and those with whom he has interacted as well as how those people have touched life after life in response to God’s work in their life.
Church is no longer about how we react to God. Church is how we bring God to the lives of others whether they choose to accept Him or not. Our true calling is to spread God’s love to the lives of others regardless of anything else. God values us over everything else and it is time for us, as His children, to show others how much He values them.
I cannot wait to read “Surprise Me” and see how God works in my life to work in the lives of others. I truly desire to “Be the Surprise” and have been more encouraged through this one little book than any other book I have read. No other author has inspired me to reach out to God’s people more than Terry Esau and it has nothing to do with him. It is all about God and not once in the book do I feel like Esau is talking about himself other than demonstrating how God worked through him to help others. This is not a pat on the back for Esau. This is the way he has chosen to live his life. I am grateful that God blessed him so that he could tell others about this faith experiment.
I don’t think it is any accident that I got this book to review. God works in mysterious ways and this book is filled with examples.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Susan Meissner (San Diego), September 29, 2008
Terry is the master storyteller. He can extract truth from the most trivial of circumstances and he does it in a way that makes you laugh one minute and grab your chest the next. In Be the Surprise, Terry challenges us, the God-followers, to look past comfy-coziness and endeavor to be the surprise from God someone else is praying for. A great read!
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