The Hole in Our Gospel Special Editio..., Richard Stearns
The Hole in Our Gospel Special Editio..., Richard Stearns
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The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition
What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

Author: Richard Stearns

Narrator: Tommy Cresswell

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 07/29/2014


Synopsis

ECPA 2010 Christian Book of the Year Award Winner! What Does God Expect of Us?Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?More than twenty years ago Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child. Stearns’s journey to that moment took much more than a long flight to Africa. It took answering God’s call on his life, a call that tore him out of his corner office at one of America’s most prestigious corporations—to walk with the poorest of the poor in our world.This anniversary edition of The Hole in Our Gospel features new content along with full-color graphics on poverty statistics, a guide for churches on short-term missions and international engagement, and an index of Scripture on poverty, justice, faith in action, and more. The Hole in Our Gospel changed people’s lives, and some of those personal accounts also appear in this anniversary edition. Stearns’s compelling story demonstrates that the whole gospel was always meant to be a world-changing, social revolution, a revolution that begins with each one of us.

About Richard Stearns

Richard Stearns went from success to significance when he left the corporate world behind to become president of World Vision U.S. in 1998. After 20 years as the longest-serving CEO of the Christian relief and development organization, he plans to retire in January 2019. Stearns holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His professional career included leadership roles at Gillette, Parker Brothers Games, The Franklin Mint, and Lenox Inc., where he became president and chief executive officer in 1995. Stearns brought corporate best practices to World Vision, where he inspired a culture of outcome-focused management. His lasting legacy is his leadership in calling on the Church in America to respond to some of the greatest needs of our time, notably the HIV and AIDS pandemic and the global refugee crisis. Stearns and his wife, Reneé, have five children and five grandchildren and live in Bellevue, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mitch

Giving a book like this a 2-star rating is like kicking a puppy. I don't want to offend people but I am going to approach this without the rose-colored glasses. For the record, I myself have a very good impression of World Vision and have donated substantially to its work over many years. I will go r......more

Goodreads review by Megan

After I started reading this book, it was always on my mind. I expected to find the book to be somewhat of a quiet marketing tool for the author's non-profit organization (World Vision), but what I found was an excellently written, very Biblically-based challenge for Christians to step up and obey t......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

A challenging book that is different to what I usually read! I picked up this book because I have been quite intrigued by the concept of the Kingdom of God (KoG) and have been trying to reframe my thinking in that language. The book is simultaneously: a mini-autobiography of Richard Stearns becoming......more

Goodreads review by Trevor

The book opens with a question it intends to answer in the 279 pages which follow. The question: "What does God expect of us?" Stearns, currently the president of World Vision, recalls just 60 days into his tenure having his bubble of satisfied security burst open. He had been the CEO of Lenox, a lu......more