The Living Christ: The Extraordinary Lives of Today's Spiritual Heroes

Harold Fickett has chosen six people from different tasks whom he believes best exhibit true Christian life and service, giving an overview of each with a more detailed narrative example of what each does. I was most impressed with the man who ministers to big-rig truck drivers, and with Miss Lauran Bethell, whose forte is rescuing prostitutes from slave-like work conditions. Miss Bethel and I worked near each other in the Thailand field of American Baptist missions, and I think Mr. Fickett portrays her very well. (She is now overseeing work similar to her "New Life" hostel, world-wide.) Fickett's concept of true worship through service is, in my opinion, far more Biblical than lifting one's hands in praise hymns in a megachurch congregation of five thousand people. Keith Dahlberg