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Maria Mmari Lasoi
Chain Reaction by Maria Mmari Lasoi
We recite the sinner's prayer and give our lives to Jesus but when the church service ends, when the music stops and the lights go off we still have to go home to our realities. We wake up the next day and expect everything to have disappeared.
We imagine that because the prison doors have been flung open, our life sentence revoked, our list of offenses blotted out, that we will find ourselves automatically in a different place in our lives.
Our chains have been broken but we have to take steps daily out of the prison - that becomes the beginning of a lifelong journey. A journey that only ends when we eventually one day enter the gates of heaven and come face to face with our precious Savior to dwell with him forever."
How do we react to He who sets us free? How do we react to what He already did on the cross for us?
Chain Reaction is a follow up book of Project Cross: Lessons From Living For Self To Living For Christ and deals with the different stages and seasons we go through as Christians right from the second we finish the prayer of repentance. With Biblical reference, Chain Reaction explains the repercussions of the disease that is sin, the cure that came on the cross and the freedom as a result thereof. Chain Reaction offers practical tips on how to press on in a new relationship with Christ and covers some of the mental ,spiritual, social and emotional struggles that come with a new life in Christ that we are often plagued with. With personal testimonies and 'prison' tales, Maria Mmari vulnerably and authentically throughout stays true to the central theme of chains, imprisonment and uses this as an allegory for the spiritual life and how we react to the newfound freedom in Christ.
Faithful Follower by Maria Mmari Lasoi
Now more than ever, we need better rules of engagement and rhythms for online life that protect the work of God within us as he molds us into more faithful followers of Christ.
In the early days, the followers of Jesus were called Followers of the Way. Those who responded to the invitation, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Followers of Jesus were invited to be with Jesus, walk like Jesus and talk like Jesus and hung on to every word of His. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Following Him has a path laid out already. The narrow path, as we are told in scripture.
From the invention of telegraphs, that would be distributed in town squares, to the radio, that would broadcast information along an even further radius, to the television and now social media that spreads information in seconds. Each technological breakthrough has proven to be an instrument that has the potential to propel our mission as followers of Jesus. Each innovation has also as well as the potential to threaten our devotion and compete with our allegiance to Christ. Through biblical teaching, Maria shares what it means to be a digitally connected follower of Jesus covering some of the issues we run into in our allegiance to Christ including:
Identity
Devotion, Distraction and Destruction
Idols and Disordered Loves
Biblical Illiteracy and Scripture Engagement
Content: Consecration and Compromise
Online Influencers & Stewarding Influence
Zeal and Legacy
Community and Discipleship
Emotions
In Faithful Follower, Maria delves into our lives as followers in light of eternity and work backwards into the present digital age examining what it means to be a digitally connected follower, remaining anchored to where our true identity lies and our mission on earth as deep, resilient and devoted followers of Jesus no matter what innovation comes next.
