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A Review of "(Un)Qualified

"(Un)qualified" is the best Christ-centered book that I have read in a long time.  It is relevant, encouraging, theological, engaging and funny without trying too hard.   I think I could be friends with Steven Furtick in real life, because I think we have a similar sense of humor.  But maybe not,  because he hates Pinterest.  So there's that. This book is relevant and necessary because every.single.one of us, as a follower of Jesus,  is both simultaneously unqualified to do anything for Christ, while also being 100% qualified because of and in Him.  When I think about someone in Scripture who is stuck between who God wants him to be and who he is, I think of Paul with his famous "do-do" passage.  (You know the one...I do not do what I want to do, but I do what I do not want to do..."  That one.) But Steven Furtick takes it in a different direction and talks about Jacob.  Jacob the heel grabber, the coniver, the trickster who spend...