LOVE LET GO by Laura S. Truax & Amalya Campbell
In September of 2014 four churches in Chicago received a
windfall -- almost two million dollars each!
One of those churches was LaSalle Street Church. With just 350 members
and a budget $50,000 in the red, this was a miracle. But what happened next was
REALLY a miracle. Each member was given a check for $500 made out to them personally
and told to “go do good”. The $160,000
represented a “tithe” or ten percent of the 1.6 million the church
received. How the remainder was to be
used was collectively decided in a year long process.
LOVE LET GO tells the result of that step in faith and how
the church as a body, and each member individually, reacted to the windfall. Told in clear prose the stories of what
happened to the cash and what happened to the recipients of such generosity are
startling in their counter intuitiveness.
Well written and touching without being maudlin, the book will
affect you long after you finish reading. Some takeaways – the “poor” are as,
or more, generous than their “wealthy” neighbors, generosity breeds more
generosity, people are surprising, sudden “wealth” is disconcerting, abundance
is in the eye of the beholder,…..
5 of 5 stars
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