Free (nook/Kindle/iTunes/DRM-free) Overrated [Xtian Altruism Activism Critique Help]

[ATDrake]

Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World? by Eugene Cho, with a foreword by Donald Miller is his critique cum exhortation to both contemplation and action regarding altruistic apathy and living up to practicing the more Christ-like ideals of one's faith, free courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook.

Currently free, probably just for the next couple of days @ B&N (may also drop in the UK), Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK), iTunes & Google Play (both available to Canadians), ChristianBook (DRM-free ePub available worldwide), and might also be free at other retailers listed on the publisher's webcatalogue page, where you can watch the book's video trailer.

If you happen to like this one and wish to hear more about the author's ideas on this subject, apparently he's been in quite a lot of podcasts from various sources, which you can find via a search on his name in the iTunes app.

Description
Many people today talk about justice, but are they living justly? They want to change the world, but are they being changed themselves?

Eugene Cho has a confession: "I like to talk about changing the world but I don't really like to do what it takes." If this is true of the man who founded the One Day's Wages global antipoverty movement, then what must it take to act on one's ideals? Cho does not doubt the sincerity of those who want to change the world. But he fears that today's wealth of resources and opportunities could be creating "the most overrated generation in history. We have access to so much but end up doing so little."

He came to see that he, too, was overrated. As Christians, Cho writes, "our calling is not simply to change the world but to be changed ourselves." In Overrated, Cho shows that it is possible to move from talk to action.

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Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Overrated-More...dp/B00K04IX9Q/