Title: Is that Really You, God?
Author: Loren Cunningham
Publisher: YWAM Publishing, 1984, 2001 - 208 pages
Genre: Autobiography
If you’ve ever heard Loren Cunningham, founder of YWAM (Youth With A Mission), you’ll know the treat we enjoyed at our church Sunday morning when he gave the Sunday sermon. Mr. Cunningham had with him some of the books he’s written. We bought two and I devoured Is That Really You, God – Hearing the Voice of God Sunday afternoon and evening.
This is the first book Mr. Cunninghamd authored (with his sister Janice Rogers) and it’s been around a while (first published in 1984, republished in 2001). In it he tells his story and the story of how YWAM – now one of the biggest if not the biggest missionary-sending organizations in the world – came to be. But he does more in these stories than just narrate a fascinating chain of events. In each tale he also draws attention to how God guided him, making the book a little manual of guidance principles.
In one of the early stories, for example, his dad got deathly ill with appendicitis while away from home. Three days into his illness, a parishioner came to his mother with the message that God had given him a dream of Rev. Cunningham coming home in a coffin. His mother replied, “Well sir, I do appreciate your coming here to tell me this today. Hard as it is, I promise I will ask God if this dream really is from Him. With something this important, He’ll tell me Himself, won’t He?”
The next day Loren’s mother greeted the kids at the breakfast table with good news. “I had a dream last night. In my dream Dad came home, but it was on a train and he was wearing his pajamas.” And that’s exactly what happened.
Later Mrs. Cunningham explained to the children, “Getting God’s leading for someone else is tricky. We can hear a confirming voice through another person. But if God has something important to tell you, He will speak to you directly.”
From beginning to end the book is filled with such inspiring and informative anecdotes. The writing is smooth and non-intrusive with, at the end of each chapter, a little hook that keeps one reading just one more chapter, and one more. I’d suggest reading it with a highlighter in hand, though, so that later you’ll easily be able to find the wisdom about God’s guidance that is sprinkled throughout.
I can see this book being especially attractive to the young person who wants to be challenged to live a radical, sold-out-to-God life. But I would also recommend it as a powerful little hearing aid for the Christian of any age.
Author: Loren Cunningham
Publisher: YWAM Publishing, 1984, 2001 - 208 pages
Genre: Autobiography
If you’ve ever heard Loren Cunningham, founder of YWAM (Youth With A Mission), you’ll know the treat we enjoyed at our church Sunday morning when he gave the Sunday sermon. Mr. Cunningham had with him some of the books he’s written. We bought two and I devoured Is That Really You, God – Hearing the Voice of God Sunday afternoon and evening.
This is the first book Mr. Cunninghamd authored (with his sister Janice Rogers) and it’s been around a while (first published in 1984, republished in 2001). In it he tells his story and the story of how YWAM – now one of the biggest if not the biggest missionary-sending organizations in the world – came to be. But he does more in these stories than just narrate a fascinating chain of events. In each tale he also draws attention to how God guided him, making the book a little manual of guidance principles.
In one of the early stories, for example, his dad got deathly ill with appendicitis while away from home. Three days into his illness, a parishioner came to his mother with the message that God had given him a dream of Rev. Cunningham coming home in a coffin. His mother replied, “Well sir, I do appreciate your coming here to tell me this today. Hard as it is, I promise I will ask God if this dream really is from Him. With something this important, He’ll tell me Himself, won’t He?”
The next day Loren’s mother greeted the kids at the breakfast table with good news. “I had a dream last night. In my dream Dad came home, but it was on a train and he was wearing his pajamas.” And that’s exactly what happened.
Later Mrs. Cunningham explained to the children, “Getting God’s leading for someone else is tricky. We can hear a confirming voice through another person. But if God has something important to tell you, He will speak to you directly.”
From beginning to end the book is filled with such inspiring and informative anecdotes. The writing is smooth and non-intrusive with, at the end of each chapter, a little hook that keeps one reading just one more chapter, and one more. I’d suggest reading it with a highlighter in hand, though, so that later you’ll easily be able to find the wisdom about God’s guidance that is sprinkled throughout.
I can see this book being especially attractive to the young person who wants to be challenged to live a radical, sold-out-to-God life. But I would also recommend it as a powerful little hearing aid for the Christian of any age.
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