Disappointed with Jesus?
Published on 8. April 2004
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160 pages
978-1-85424-649-3 (ISBN)
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See below. Gavin Calver is the son of Rev. Dr Clive Calver, for many years General Director of the Evangelical Alliance, a founding member of Spring Harvest, and now the President of World Relief, a Christian charity working out of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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"It breaks my heart," writes Gavin Calver, "to think how many of my mates got lost along the way. Those who packed it in claimed to be disappointed with Jesus. Really they were disappointed with church." Gavin found it tough to be the son of a preacher man. Conscious of the eyes and expectations upon him, he got thrown out of Sunday school, slunk off to smoke in the car park during sermons, and eventually abandoned church entirely in favour of Wimbledon Football Club, girls and alcohol Today, still in his twenties, he is on the leadership team of Youth for Christ, where he is responsible for the team working with local churches. His vivid first book combines anger and sadness that so many of his friends have left the faith, with an abiding confidence in Jesus and the message of the Kingdom "We can still win young people for Christ, we can still give the church an exciting future, we can still reverse the statistics. There is still time."