Where can
you encounter God? So many people think the only place you can encounter God is
at church or with other Christians. Tony Kriz, in his book, Neighbors and Wise Men, challenges this
notion to the core.
Kriz grew
up in what many would consider an ideal setting. A happy Christian home, able
to go the school he wanted and then entered foreign mission work after college.
And it was there that his world turned upside down. Kriz did mission work in Albania, a muslin
country. There, while his past told him these people were on the wrong team,
yet he found people who were more in touch with God and their faith than anyone
he knew back home. This caused Kriz to start questioning everything he believed
to be true. After being discharged from the mission organization he was working
for, Kriz found himself back home and in theology school trying to get back in
touch with his faith and his God. But, he quickly found out this wasn’t going
to happen in the classroom, but in many unexpected places. It was through
encounters with many unlikely people, in unlikely places that Kriz regains his
faith and see that God is bigger than he ever imagined.
Neighbors and Wise Men was an interesting book to read. I
enjoyed seeing how Kriz faith grew and developed through all of the different
people he encountered. Being a person who has a similar background to Kriz, I
can understand how important it is to see that God is bigger than we often
think. We need to stop putting God in a box and open ourselves to how He can
work through all thing, all people and in all places.
I was given
a copy of this book by Book Sneeze. All opinions are my own. I was not required
to write a positive review.
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