Lord, Save Us from Your Followers: Why Is the Gospel of Love Dividing America?

I have to say, I have never read a book that made me look at how I was treating other people in the past and now. The author Dan Merchant spent a couple years moving around interviewing different people of different backgrounds and beliefs. What he found out was that if he would approach the hot button issues like same sex marriage or abortion with an attitude of love and compassion the people he was interviewing would have a two way conversation and not be offended. This whole book centers around the two greatest commandments made by Jesus Christ, to love the Father and love one another and mostly the “love one another“. The author uses different methods to get unwilling participants to engage in a two way dialect with him about the hot topics and the culture war going on in America and they find a renewed outlook on Christians by doing so. Dan Merchant also finds that most people that don’t claim to be Christian are turned off by the so called Christians attitude and one sidedness basically finding out that most people think Christians are judgmental and untrue to what Jesus was telling us in the Bible. No where in the Bible did Jesus say to only love people that are not gay or only people that make a certain amount of money or people that have not had an abortion, what Jesus really said is to love every one unconditionally and not judge them and after reading this book I have had to reevaluate my attitude and the way I have treated people in the past. This was a great book and it is also made into a documentary that I am planning on seeing. The book was a real eye opener and I have to admit that it has made me think hard about my actions and what Christians really stand for. There is way too much about the book to get in a review but I can tell you this it is worth the time to read it and I think you will laugh at times and may even get a little misty eyed at times. The most important thing in the book was the realization that God loves me just as much as a homeless person or someone that is gay. Just read the book and you will see what I am trying to say.