
The Very Worst Missionary
A Memoir or Whatever
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Narrated by:
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Madeleine Lambert
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By:
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Jamie Wright
After finding Jesus at a suburban megachurch, young Jamie Wright trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with her husband, kids, and the family cat, she intends to serve God and make converts.
But she soon loses faith and falls into a funk of cynicism and despair. Fortunately, Knives the cat is there, looking on with just enough disinterest to make her laugh...and dare her to try another way. That other way turns out to be telling the truth. She launches a renegade blog, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary, which against all odds soon wins a large and passionate following around the world.
Slowly, she begins to see that being a bad missionary - awkward, doubtful, skeptical - can mean that you're just the kind of person someone else might be willing to hear...and that loving others is just as much about changing yourself as it is about converting them.
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Well-rounded testimony of a missionary.
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Radical candor and badassery at its finest!
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Raw. Unfiltered. Grace-full.
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it will catch you off guard
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Interesting point of view
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Honest, real, humorous.
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Convicting and honest
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Encouraging and thought provoking
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I also enjoyed the reader. I was disappointed that Jamie didn't read it. But this reader really gets the tone and doesn't try to christian-ize sarcasm, which I've experienced in other books...ahem all Jen Hatmaker books that she didn't read herself.
Poignant, Gritty, Thought-Provoking and Real
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But I was also challenged in another way. Because the author has a valid point about our missionary model, yet, she then goes out of her way to make it difficult for some people to read. First, she is very black-and-white in her conclusions. I got the impression she has made up her mind, and I'm wrong if I don't agree. And seconed, I'm also wrong if I have trouble with her swearing. I, too, use foul language, mostly in my self-talk. I'm not proud of it. And I don't use it when I want someone to consider my point of view. I could only conclude the author wants to make sure we all know, this is her memoir and if we don't agree with her, that's not her problem... It's ours.
The book is valuable to understand that everyone processes their relationship with Jesus for themselves. It does make you think, and for that, I'm grateful.
Challenging in more ways than one
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