True love is a revolutionary experience. Love between two persons always changes them. Love of art revolutionaries the artist. Love of nation revolutionizes the citizen. And far above any of these revolutionary human loves is the love of Christ, causing the most radical revolutionary experience in human life.
I wish there had been a little more flesh on this book's bones -- a full biography would have been more satisfying than a collection of snippets. But the gospel shone brightly through what is there, and I am grateful for that.
A favorite quote: "New Testament repentance does not include, as some religions do, a long period of remorse or being put into a sort of spiritual quarantine before you come into grace." God forgives us immediately, and so we ought to forgive one another immediately.
What a blessing to learn about, and learn from, this brother in Christ from Uganda. Part autobiographical, part devotional, this book explores what it looks like when the love of Christ transforms people. Through Festo's own story of his unlikely conversion and his ministry, and through other powerful stories from around East Africa, we get a glimpse of God's power to change people. We also see what it looks like when believers live together in authentic Christian community. A short read, and worth reading with an open heart.
"I’ll tell you what God does all day long. He spends His whole day mending broken things.”