Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places
by Kate McCord
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Pub Date Sep 01 2015 | Archive Date Oct 01 2015
Description
"Perhaps that's the greatest reason why He calls us to dangerous places: so that we will know His astonishing, sacrificial, life-restoring love."
Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places is about what is lost and what is gained when we follow God at any cost.
Soon after 9/11, Kate McCord left the corporate world and followed God to Afghanistan-sometimes into the reach of death. Alive but not unscathed, she has suffered the loss of many things: comfort, safety, even dear friends and fellow sojourners.
But Kate realizes that those who go are not the only ones who suffer. Those who love those who go also suffer. This book is for them, too.
Weaving together Scripture, her story, and stories of both those who go and those who send, Kate considers why God calls us to dangerous places and what it means for all involved.
It means dependence. It means loss. It means a firmer hold on hope. It can mean death, trauma, and heavy sorrow. But it can also mean joy unimaginable. Through suffering, we come closer to the heart of God.
Written with the weight of glory in the shadow of loss, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places will inspire Christians to count the cost-and pay it.
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Featured Reviews
Janka H, Educator
Frank, passionate and profound book about how it is to leave everything and follow God's call to serve Him at the dangerous places.
Kate McCord did this in Afghanistan. And the experience was nothing she had thought it would be - and was much, much more. Because to be at the dangerous place means to have your heart broken repeatedly by the ever-present violence (and you might very well known the one who suffer by this violence, they might be your friends and colleagues), fear and rejection by those whom you wish to serve and offer God's words and salvation. But it also means to have your heart cleaned, refreshed and transformed by the raw power of God's presence, care and love.
I have never served in the dangerous places, but I have served in different service - and while my safety was never threatened, I can attest that the pain of service to others is real. But also the deepening is real! God gives so much to those who serve Him (even if the service IS tiring and overwhelming so often).
This book is raw, too, as the authoress is not holding back in her sharing. You will find no sugar-coating here, no false promises - instead you can find the presence of God in Kate's life. Her heart was broken, too - but God holds it.
I was deeply touched by the "personalness" of this testimony. And also my comfort was disturbed, which is a good thing.
Recommended read.
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