“O me of Little Faith” Jason Boyett

I absolutely loved this book.  Jason Boyett knows how to keep the readers attention.  The writing style reminded me of “Blue Like Jazz”  by Donald Miller.  Boyett is informal with his audience and just tells it like it is.  He is also not afraid of using humor.  I found myself laughing hysterically at a few of the comments he made about his personal life, but not at him.  I was laughing because so often I feel the same way he does.  Especially, when it comes to doubt.  I have had the same issues and still do quite often.  The book of James had a lot to say about faith and in James 1:3 he says “for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.”  The more our faith is tested the more our faith is set.  Boyett was very real with his faith and his doubts.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy read that will not point you to him, but to yourself and ultimately Christ.  What I mean by yourself is as you laugh and read this book you will see yourself more often than not in it and it was great.

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Blue Like Jazz

I’ve been reading Blue Like Jazz for the past week and it is a completely fascinating book.  Donald Miller has written a memoir of his life, up to the point when the book was published, and his “Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality” make sense.  It is the first book I could sit down and read two chapters from different ends of the book and not miss a beat.  He makes quite a few great points in the book and the exerpt I’m going to type I’ve been told, but it never made sense until I read it in BLJ.  To set up the scene Don and his friend Paul are talking about marriage.

“So marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?”  Don asked

“No, it is so much more than I ever thought it would be.  One of the ways God shows me He loves me is through Danielle, and one of the ways God shows Danielle He loves her is through me.  And because she loves me, and teaches me I am lovable, I can better interact with God.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously.  And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he cannot accept who God is; a Being that is love.  We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people,” Paul says.  That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.”

Are we showing the love of Jesus Christ to each other to prove that they are lovable and therefore God loves them or do we blow them off and show God is not capable of loving them?  God does love them, but are you showing it?