I’d been praying for a chance for months. A chance to share my faith with this guy I saw each week after church. But when the opportunity finally arose, I ended up talking about brownies instead of the Bible! And as I left the room I knew I’d blown it. I’d completely messed up.
Ever felt like that? Useless? Utterly unprepared? It’s not pleasant. But at some point in our lives – in school or at home, in relationships or at work – all of us will discover how truly weak we are.
And that’s what Hero (UK and US) is about. Author Jonty Allcock shows how God uses and equips weak people to bring about his great plans with a famous account from the book of Judges.
Gideon’s an ordinary guy. Scared, small, the least in his family… and yet somehow he winds up chosen to lead a ridiculously small army against the bullies of the day. He starts out a failure and ends up a victor. It sounds impossible! Except that Gideon is on God’s side. And he’s a God who displays his strength in weakness.
It’s a pattern we see throughout the Bible. And as you read through Hero you’ll begin to see that, in Christ, we undergo the same transformation.
It’s a short, easy to read, wittily illustrated book which brings this exciting story to life and uses every line to point us to Jesus. Perfect for your youth group, but relevant for us all.
With a God like this, a God who makes losers into heroes, weakness is not something to be feared. It’s something we can learn to delight in because we know he is at work in it.
