You Were Made to Make a Difference
Written by Max Lucado
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Changing lives... changing your community... changing hearts... The God who made the universe made you to make a difference! How? God and you together. Here's what happens: When you realize how much God loves you, you'll want to do everything possible to share his love with others. This audio can help you see what it takes to be a difference maker for God. You'll find stories of real-life teens just like you and discover that you are never too young to make a difference in your community . . . and in the world!
Max Lucado
Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast
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Reviews for You Were Made to Make a Difference
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is a great introduction to what is at the heart of Christian faith and that is being the good news for others who are less fortunate than ourselves. Even though this book has many good attributes and I found myself highlighting plenty of text, it still seemed to only skim the surface. It is a great book and one that many Christians need to read but having already read 'The Hole in our Gospel' and other books about being the blessing to the rest of the world and caring for others as Jesus intended us to, I felt like I didn't gain much from it. So if you are new to this idea of what the bible says about giving to others then you will surely enjoy this book. If you have read some I would recommend a more comprehensive book such as 'The Hole in our Gospel' because this may prove to be more of a beginners guide to you.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lucado's premise is that as Christians, we can do things in the service of God that enable us to outlive our life. As an opening illustration, he tells the story of a visitor to an isolated island community who is surprised to see it thriving when every nearby community is doing poorly. The islanders credit a religious figure as the reason they are doing so well. The visitor demands to meet this man--but is baffled when he is taken to thriving fisheries, a beautiful chapel, etc. The villager explain that the man is dead and no longer with them...but he lives on in the things he taught them and the good works he left behind. Such inspiration fills this entire book, and with Lucado's wonderful gift for storytelling it is an easy listen.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5First book I've read by the author, but I felt like it got off topic or maybe I just didn't get it. I had a hard time relating the stories to the title.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Although we Christians often dream of doing great things for God’s Kingdom, sometimes we need that little extra motivation in life to get up off the couch and start making a difference in people’s lives. Max Lucado’s Outlive Your Life offers a sixteen-point study of The Book of Acts, showing us how and whom to serve. Unfortunately, each point centers more around personal experiences and modernized Bible retellings than any in-depth study of Scriptural commandments. I’m skeptical about this Sunday-school approach to constructing orthopraxy out of just examples, especially when great Bible passages are available for support. Lucado also has a limited view of “social justice.” He needs a course in basic economics before deciding what Christians can and should be doing in that regard. Finally, I’m puzzled as to how anyone reading Acts 5:2 would conclude that lying about the money was Sapphira’s rather than Ananias’ idea. A great lesson was ruined by a pointless, not to mention suspicious, interpretation. To conclude: Light summary of lessons in Acts, but not for the meat eater. This book was provided for review by BookSneeze.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was provided for review by BookSneeze.comIn Outlive Your Life Max Lucado once again has an inspirational message for us all. He wonders what might the world be like if each person gave what they could to make someone else's life better. He understands that we all don't have the same ability (money, time, etc.) to give, but we all have something. It is these little things that he thinks might make the big difference.I loved the message in this book. When we see the poor starving children on TV we wish there were something real that we could do. We wish we could send them tons of money to help out, but in reality most of us don't have tons of money. But we can do something. Even something as little as inviting someone over for dinner is helping someone who may be eating alone. It just takes a little effort and the compassion to not turn a blind eye.The main idea of the book is that we are all God's people and by helping others we are doing God's work. There are many versus that Lucado uses to show how helping those less fortunate (or the Gentiles as the Bible refers to them) is doing God's work. Jesus was not turning a blind eye to these people, and if we are to do God's work neither should we.As always the writing was great. The chapters were fairly short and the book was a quick read. I loved how each chapter had a verse that it focuses on, and what I took to be, a prayer for us to let God help us help others. This really was an inspiring book. And as usual Lucado shows us how easy it can be to really help others.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In a world full of injustice, poverty, oppression, and malaise, it is easy to become hardened, cynical, and disengaged. The believer in Christ, however, is called to something greater-- to reflect Jesus to all men, especially those who are in distress.This is the theme of Max Lucado's newest book, Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference. Among my fellow members of churches of Christ, the name "Max Lucado" often evokes images of "apostate" and "change agent." Once part of the churches of Christ, Lucado has certainly accommodated his own views, along with those of his congregation, to be acceptable to Evangelicalism as a greater whole. This is truly lamentable considering Lucado's great skill at communicating to others.Outlive Your Life uses the events of Acts 1-12 as a paradigm for discussing what God expects from believers today. Each chapter begins with a Scripture and ends with a Scripture and a suggested prayer. Chapters feature matters like the ordinary nature of God's servants, the need to get out of our shells, to put the greater (spiritual) good ahead of lesser (physical) ones, to work with fellow Christians, to be hospitable, to assist others in need, to stand up in the face of persecution, to do good, to be a source of strength for the dispossessed, to remain humble before God, to remove prejudices in life, to resist arrogance, to pray continually, and, based on Matthew 25, remember that when you help people in distress you help Jesus. The book ends with a discussion and action guide designed to promote further discussion and action.Lucado is a very vivid author. He seamlessly takes you from the first century to the twenty-first century with his illustrations and examples (although I wished that he would keep the first century as the first century and the twenty-first as the twenty-first and not blend the images as he does occasionally!). He writes in a familiar and understandable way.On the whole, the book is theologically sound and has a message that must be proclaimed. It is good to see that some elements of concern for the dispossessed and the need to practice authentic Christianity is being proclaimed by more voices within greater Christendom; the sooner Christendom sheds the sanctimonious, interested-only-in-sexual-mores "Moral Majority" image, the better. Nevertheless, there are a few challenges: Lucado's embrace of ecumenism, occasional looseness in handling the Biblical narrative, and the dizzying leapfrogging from Bible translation to Bible translation.Yet this should not diminish from the overall excellence of Outlive Your Life. It is a necessary call in the midst of a time and place more devoted to materialism and consumerism than authentic New Testament Christianity and its emphasis on clearing prejudice, assisting the downtrodden and dispossessed, and reliance on God and not self. May many come to a better understanding of these truths!*-- book received as part of an early review program.