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The Listener: What if You Could Hear What God Hears?  
Author: Terri Blackstock
ISBN: 1595540105
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description

One minute he was sleeping peacefully. Then he was having the strangest dream. And now Sam Bennett is hearing things.

He's hearing the deepest spiritual needs of those around him. He can't be-and yet he is. He's reading their hearts.

After the initial shock, panic, and confusion subside, Sam realizes one thing: Life will never be the same.

Best-selling author Terri Blackstock's beautiful story will change the way you look at the world and the people around you.




The Listener: What if You Could Hear What God Hears?

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Lukewarm believer Sam Bennett awakens from a dream to discover that he can hear the deepest spiritual needs of those around him. Frightened at first, he begins to embrace his gift and follow the Spirit's leading, with the result that many lives are touched and led to faith in Christ. In the end, Bennett's life is radically transformed, and his friends, family, and church are forever changed as they begin to "hear" the needs of others as God hears. The Heart Reader is a moving evangelistic challenge for all believers.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

This anonymous novella attempts to teach a lesson about evangelism by telling the story of Sam, a middle-aged advertising executive who is also a Milquetoast Christian. One night, the Holy Spirit gives Sam the ability to hear the inmost thoughts of all around him, a power that makes him aware of how desperately they all need Jesus. With a little help from his pastor, Sam starts using his gift to begin evangelistic conversations with strangers. When he hears a man wishing that "someone bigger was in control," Sam introduces himself and tells the stranger "who [is] really in control." Though we see Sam rebuffed once, the author concocts a fantasy in which not only Sam, but also his family and friends, win souls by the dozens, simply by having short conversations with people about the idea that Jesus can meet their needs. More miraculously, all these new converts show up at Sam's church ready to grow as Christians and to "bear fruit" by going on soul-winning expeditions themselves. At one point, one of Sam's Promise Keepers "accountability partners" objects to Sam's evangelism spree by asking, "Don't you think you're selling them an easy-believism? A repeat-after-me kind of faith?" While Sam assures his friend that he is not, the novella itself offers no such assurances. It is rather a treacly fairy tale that ignores the complexity of suffering, genuine conversion and, perhaps most disappointingly, good storytelling. (June) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

     



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