Mike Pilavachi explains life's desert experiences and how God uses them to make us better, helping readers to see things as God does. It we want to go deep with God we will be taken into the desert. The desert represents the crucible where the waste is burned away to produce character and humility. We should welcome this experience, as it is here that God shapes us. In this book, Pilavachi instructs, "Don't settle for a superficial version of Christianity. Superficial Christianity is the most boring thing in the world. God for broke. Ask your Lord to take you deeper. Choose to live the adventure. Don't run away. Then you will come up from the desert, leaning on your lover (Christ), ready to be a voice and not yet another echo, equipped to change the world."
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Reviewed by Christian Book Previews (San Jose, CA), August 24, 2004
Soul Survivor, by Mike Pilavachi, attempts to bring purpose and meaning to our dry places. He submits that these valleys, which all people walk through, are an opportunity for us to become who God wants us to be. Our journey with God begins there.
The author postulates that it is in the dry places that God can mold us best. It is at these times that we come face to face with pain, desperation, humility, helplessness, and ultimately, God Himself. Mike Pilavachi is the founder of Soul Survivor, a movement that seeks to evangelize, disciple, equip, and empower young people to have impact with there peers. He also speaks and is a pastor of a church in England.
Pilavachi states in the first chapter "There is purpose in the desert. The purpose is that we should return from the desert no longer leaning on our own understanding, strengths and talents but instead leaning on the Lord, whom we have discovered there to be our lover. In order to lean on Him, we must first acknowledge that we cannot walk by ourselves. Then we have to trust that the One we lean on will support us and hold us. Dependence and intimacy are the two major lessons we learn in the desert." This is the theme of the book and he includes story after story of examples of this theme live out.
This book is refreshing, in that it provides hope to those living in a painfully dry place. Many today want to experience the mountaintop and expect to stay there. Pilavachi responds that "the valleys are not pauses between mountains; they are where Christianity is lived out." This book hammers home that valleys cannot and should not be avoided if we want God's best for our lives. This book is great for anyone who wants to make sense of painful times in his or her lives. -- Dave Walters, Christian Book Previews.com
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