RELEVANT Magazine

I don’t think I’d be overstepping my bounds to say that Craig Gross and J.R. Mahon are a wee-bit frustrated with the inactivity of mainstream Christianity today. From their criticism of believers who won’t act as though God has changed their hearts to their frustration with a lack of action, Gross and Mahon challenge their readers to move in areas of compassion ministries and social justice. Their book Starving Jesus is a rally cry to Christians across all denominations and all ages to get “off the pew, [and] into the world.”

Martin Luther once said, “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” Gross and Mahon suggest that Christians need to quit talking or pondering ministry and instead jump in where there is need. Often young adult believers buy into the lies that we need to become “better” or less sinful people before God can use us. We use excuses like, “I’m waiting on God before I venture out.” This thinking is essentially...