Joe's Review:
Books and our opinions of them is a complicated tapestry that may never be fully understood. A person may read a book that does not move them or touch their heart and immediately declare it trash. That same person may pick that same book up years later and wonder in amazement at the very pages he had previously relegated as fire starter.
So what makes a great book? It is not so much the book or the reader, but the timing of when and where the two come together. For when the season of life of the reader and the author come together and can be laid over one another without much distinction between the two it is then that the reader has found his masterpiece and the author has found his adoring audience. This is where I find myself in regards to, What Difference Do It Make?
My second review for Thomas Nelson found me with a book I purposely chose because I would normally not read it. In an attempt to expand my horizons, I have found a whole new world. What Difference Do It Make?, is quite possibly the single most life changing book I have read since, The Shack by Paul Young.
What Difference Do It Make? written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, is the follow up to Same Kind Of Different As Me. (Which I have not read at the time of this review, but will be doing so as soon as possible.)
What Difference Do It Make? is honest, unpretentious, and at times raw. The authors lay their hearts out in away that flies in the face of the majority of Christian works these days. It is a welcomed dose of reality in the midst of a whirlwind of books that tend to be nothing more than literary self-medication.
Ron Hall wins my admiration with his willingness to share his true feelings about the death of his wife, the response of those around him, and his own thoughts towards his earthly father. He seems to me as a man who has learned to live in his Father’s love, and I hope one day to be able to have that said about me.
Denver Moore is one of the most insightful men I have heard from in a long time, a tremendous feat for a man who until recently was illiterate and homeless. With humility and candor he lays bare the state of the church. Insight such as, “Why are people always invitin’ us to their Bible studies and not their Bible do’ins” brings clarity without judgement to our current affairs.
Interspersed throughout the book are stories that come from the effect their first book Same Kind of Different as Me had on the lives of those who were blessed enough to read it. Many of the stories are just as touching as the words of the authors themselves, yet a few feel out of place and lack the punch of the rest of the book.
As I conclude this review I realize I have not given much information as to the topic of the book itself. To some it up in the words of the author Ron Hall, “It’s a love story,” and I recommend it whole heartedly to anyone and everyone.
You can buy it on Amazon here: What Difference Do It Make?
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