Finished reading “The Unlikely Disciple” last night and felt the need to get the review up on stevansheets.com as soon as possible.
This is a first-handed account of Mr. Kevin Roose an at-the-time 19-year-old Sophomore at Brown University in Rhode Island. Roose chose to leave Brown for a semester and spent that semester “under cover” at Liberty University – the premier conservative university founded by Dr. Jerry Falwell.
What results is a semester’s worth of text revolving around an outsider’s viewpoint of the Christian subculture including some highs and lows.
I was convicted by reading this book that EVERY action and EVERY word is being watched by someone who may be watching and listening. My prayer is that EVERY aspect of my life – word & deed – is done in such a way to bring Glory to Jesus Christ.
Roose writes honestly and from a perspective that most of us Christians don’t have a clue about. I am thankful that Roose performed this “experiment” and I have to believe that his semester-full of peers will be challenged to grow in their faith by the words contained in this book.
Roose was quickly accepted (mostly) by his Liberty-peers and from start-to-finish no one outed him as a ‘spy’ or ‘journalist’. Apparently he even made some lifelong friends through the time spent with Liberty-students.
This book should be read by those of us who may have become so ingrained in our Christian subculture that we’ve not taken a look, lately, to those Jesus was most concerned with. Whoa to those of us who get “comfortable” ministering to the saved (99) without taking time to seek relationship with the lost (1).
I’m now following author, Kevin Roose on his blog and twitter.
