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Title: Becoming the Answer to our Prayers

Author: Shane Claiborne

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-09

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief.

Members Reviews:

praying with your feet

Good book, in general. I found a lot of material repeated from Claiborne's Irresistable Revolution (could be that I read the two within a week of each other). According to the authors, they are not trying to teach people how to pray as much as they are trying to encourage us to be better more courageous pray-ers. They are trying to be the spark that unites those radically committed to following the Rabbi from Nazareth to burn with the consuming fire of God. That said, there are some real nuggets of hard-hitting truth that affected me deeply. For example:

"Because white congregations in America have so often intellectualized faith and individualized our relationship with God, people who are hungry for community and drawn to justice movements are usually white. So we find ourselves trying to learn how to be the people of God with one other white folks a lot of the time. the trouble with this isn't just that we end up reproducing communities marked by racial division (though this is something that troubles us deeply). We also continue to suffer the deficiencies of white theology.

"White folks are big on ideas, and we try hard to put our ideas into practice. But ideas are not what sustains us when times get hard. In our experience, it wasn't until we encountered the spiritual wisdom that black churches and charismatic Christianity possess in abundance that hope really came alive. We have much to learn from people who know struggle."

Maybe it's because I see myself so clearly in these paragraphs that it hit me so hard. We (the educated) are very good at thinking our way through this faith thing. The problem is that we have become so good at thinking about it and talking about it that we have forgotten Jesus' call to "follow me." When I'm brutally honest, I must admit that I don't know struggle. I read, write, think, and live from the comfort of middle-class privilege. Jonathan and Shane pull back the covers that I'm all too comfortable hiding beneath and expose the short-comings of my own walk with God. They do so, however, not with the callous frigidity of an outsider looking in and wagging his finger, but with the compassion and encouragement of a fellow pilgrim, seeking to encourage others along this road we are all called to travel together.

Good, but the same

I really enjoy both of these young men and their passion to authentically follow Jesus' call. This is a good book. However, if you are familiar with both authors then much of the stories are already well-know to the reader. Still a good book, and good price.

This is truly a beautiful, inspirational

This is truly a beautiful, inspirational, fact finding book that's easy to read and digest while it challenges Christians to deeper awareness of our role as god's children.