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God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer | 
 enlarge | Author: Pete Greig
Publisher: Kingsway Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8095
Media: Paperback
Pages: 346
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1842913174
EAN: 9781842913178
ASIN: 1842913174
Publication Date: April 4, 2007
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Condition: Hardback
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Recommended November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that this is an excellent and an honest book about answered and unanswered prayer. The fact that Pete explores the issues and is honest about the subject makes it a book that I have recommended to others to read. I could identify very much with the struggle to understand why God doesn't always appear to answer prayer in the way that we want or would hope for. Pete doesn't try to excuse God which is always a trap we can fall into. I liked in particular his exploration of Easter Saturday. I wasn't particularly drawn to it by the title but I guess it does draw attention to itself among the shelves of so many books and is probably very post modern!
The Best January 15, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is quite simply the best, most honest inspiring and hopeful book on 'why prayers are unanswered' I have read (and I have read many)
As a chronic pain sufferer who has passed on my condition to my 2 children and am watching my parents daily deterioration, I found this author to be profoundly inspiring and encouraging.
Honest, intelligent, and funny as well December 5, 2007
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Pete Greig is a very committed Christian, who founded a prayer movement called 24-7. 24-7 has been hugely influential, has spread across the globe and has generated literally thousands upon thousands of amazing stories of answered prayer. So when Pete's wife Samie has a terrifying fit, is diagnosed with a massive brain tumour, has brain surgery and is left with epilepsy, Pete is ideally placed to pray for her and see her illness healed and her epilepsy disappear. Isn't he?
That isn't how things work out. Pete prays all right, and so do many others, but the sickness remains. So here you have the leader of a global prayer movement, who really knows the power of prayer and sees prayers answered all the time, having to wrestle with the fact that his own prayers for something that desperately, desperately matters to him aren't being answered at all. How can he reconcile this with his faith?
The result is one of the best Christian books I've read in a long time, one of those books that you keep buying extra copies of to give away. It is written with honesty and integrity: not trying to sugar-coat the pain of what he and Samie have been through, but wrestling with it and trying to understand it. Pete has brought together a great many strands of theological thought, and has made them accessible. This should be compulsory reading for every Christian.
A very honest book October 29, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the book that many people have been waiting for and certainly one I found very real and relevant to me. Pete is writing from the heart of his experiences of coping with his wife Samie's diagnosis of a brain tumour just as the 24-7 prayer movement that he "accidently" found himself heading up (a whole other book which is another amazing read- "Red moon rising")was really taking off, and closer to home, just after he and his wife had their second baby. A turbulent enough time for any family with a new baby and managing an exploding international prayer phenomenon, without the devastating news that Samie has to undergo life saving surgery. The book's subtitle is "engaging the silence of unanswered prayer" and on many levels their major prayer was answered, Samie survived the brain tumour, however she is left with a severe form of epilepsy which has a major impact on her and Pete's day to day life and that of trying to bring up a young family. This is the main crux of the book, her life is saved but why is she left with this condition and how does it benefit anyone? Pete sums it up here on page 133 of the book..."for me, it has been the relentless battle with Samie's epilepsy during the past six years rather than the initial diagnosis of her tumour that has provoked me to address the painful reality of unanswered prayer. Why doesn't God heal her? Is the problem my unbelief? Is it a matter of spiritual warfare? Is it simply the Fall? Why doesn't Jesus do what He did 2,000 years ago? Is it His will for Samie to suffer? Why would He want such a thing? I wouldn't wish seizures on my worst enemy. It's not as though another assault on my wife's body is going to further world peace or even deepen our faith in a way that the previous 10 seizures did not." This is the honesty and humour that is demonstrated throughout the book, but it isn't just a personal memoir, Pete has a background in theology that adds great weight to the book which is cleverly crafted from start to finish around the events of Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday with a great message of hope and faith despite the pain.
Invitation to Engage July 30, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
There's no way I can be objective about Pete Greig's writing as its impact on me over the last three years has been massive and at the heart of a whole resurgence of energy for God and the kingdom coming that is marking my life and relationships just now. But I'll try ...
God on Mute is the best grapple with the agonising question of un-answered prayer that I know. It is for real. Primarily because it springs out of Pete and Samie's story of what is so very demanding in their lives. But also for the way it connects with the experience of Jesus: facing his fear in Gethsemane; utterly alone on the cross; dead silent in the tomb; speaking into his friends' deepest fears on the day of Resurrection. I have wept with this book. And I know I will return to it for its specific teaching which is well organised and accessible, not only for individual readers but as a resource for group study and reflection.
The overall impact for me is a challenge about being more bold, specific and persistent in intercession; I realise that the main reason I don't know the real agony of un-answered prayer is that so much of my praying has been so open-ended that it would be hard to determine what was answer and what was lack-of-answer. Through Pete's writing God is inviting me to a much deeper engagement than that.
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