The Debt

The Debt is a thought provoking book that will make you take a long, hard look at the way you “do” ministry. Do you expect hurting people to come to your church or do you take the church to where the people are hurting? Angela Hunt has woven a beautiful story of a pastor and his wife who are doing great things within their large church, until someone very unexpected opens their eyes to another way to reach the lost.

This is a good book about the struggles that Christian people face. Just because we are Christians does not mean that we don't struggle with sin.
The main character's past in the form of the child she gave up for adoption turns up in Emma's life and totally turns everything upside down. Is he a true threat to the holy life that Emma and her husband personify? Or is he a true Jesus follower who is actually doing more of the Lord's work than Emma and her husband's ministry?

I was disappointed in this book. It is a Christ parable without much charm & with no recognition of the evils of the "fundamentalist" positions; there is just some argument about how to go about promoting those positions.

Emma Rose and Abel Howard's television ministry has become an empire! But when a man claiming to be Emma's out-of-wedlock son surfaces, their marriage -- and faith -- are tested.

Great book -- refreshing for the soul!

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