Hello, my name is Raegan Holle. I am a world wide book critic out of Lincoln, Nebraska. I travel around the world Evaluating books so that you may know more about them and especially so that you may know more about the book Outlive Your Life. I am writing this for my religion 8 class for Mr. Weishaar.
I believe that the overall theme of chapter 4 was bread, and how unopened bread does us no good. Max Lucado states in page 38 that “Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good.” As Christians, we are to open up that loaf of bread, receive it, but also share it with others so that they may come to know Christ, or the Bread of Life. We find much comfort in this bread which is Christ when we hear John 6:35 (NLT). It states that “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again.”
The author has a couple of main points that go along with the theme very well and then stuck out to me. Max states that “The grain-to-bread process is a demanding one. The seed must be planted before it can grow. When ethe grain is ripe, it must be cut down and ground into flour. Before it can become bread, it must pass through the oven. Bread is the end result of planting, harvesting, and heating” (Lucado 38). Max later then follows that quote up with a very powerful statement. He states that “Jesus endured an identical process. He was born into this world. He was cut down, bruised, and beaten on the threashing floor of Calvary. He passed through the Fire of God’s wrath, for our sake” (Lucado 38). Personally I would have never though of comparing God’s life, death, and resurrection to the forming of bread from grain.
I think that the author is trying to imply/the author’s goal was to really open up the eyes of the reader that if they haven’t so already, they should open up their loaf of bread which is Jesus Christ. They shouldn’t just open it, but they should also receive it, and share their bread of life with others.
