This Change Is Everything

by Shane Sebastian

In "This Change Is Everything", Shane Sebastian walks through the history of God using young people to transform individuals, communities, cultures and nations. Shane shows how seemingly insurmountable obstacles-peer and parental approval, career concerns, debt, doubt, temptation, and the like-are not so much obstacles as opportunities to see God provide and pave a way for a changed life and changed world. This book sits at the threshold of what your life could be if you give God control and let him change you and use you to change others. Don't read unless you're willing to be challenged, to be changed, and to come to a crossroads where you seriously ask yourself how God wants you to change the world. 16-page full color insert of students on mission.

152 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2016

About the author

Shane Sebastian is the Executive Director of Cru Global Missions. He is a graduate of UC Irvine, Hope International University, has a Doctorate from George Fox Evangelical Seminary, and for the last 25+ years has ministered alongside college students from around the world, taking the Gospel to the nations.

With his latest book, Dropping In: Experience the Life You Were Meant to Live, Shane takes a candid look at what it means to be in a relationship with God and uses his lifelong passion for surfing as a way to connect it to a Spirit-filled life with Jesus Christ.

Reviews

[Michelle Inman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A teeny tiny 100 page book that’s motivating and compelling. Shane Sebastian does a great job highlighting the way that God has used young people throughout Scripture and Christian history. He definitely makes missions feel like something that the “ordinary” person can do. Though, I felt like it was super repetitive (so like… could’ve been 75 pages?) and pretty random with some of the topics. Like, I see how they fit in but also seemed very abrupt.

All in all, I’d recommend it since it won’t take you long to read. Definitely recommend for college kids & those who work with college kids.

[Tim Casteel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great vision for how college students will change the world - based on thorough research from Shane's Doctoral dissertation. Short, very readable. Could use a little editing (spelling, etc).

[Artemus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super repetitive, could've been a brochure!

[Cassie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy -to-read writing style that is down to earth; short chapters; and good questions at the end of each chapter. This book could easily be used in discipleship, or with a group of friends, to foster greater conversation. I thought it was overall relatable, visionary, and digestible for college students.

I'd lean towards giving it to an underclassmen (freshman/sophomore) - or maybe even high schooler? - to get more mileage out of the life examples given by the author, though older students and grads will still get something out of it.

[Zachary Hanje · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little book about how God has historically used University students to accomplish Kingdom-work, and the obstacles that many students face today when considering going into missions work.