The Book That Transforms Nations: The Power of the Bible to Change Any Country

Missions and what God is doing in the world is so clear after reading this excellent true story.

Love the examples of people given in this book and the tremendous influence they had when fully dedicated to teaching the powerful lessons of the greatest book of all.

This book, with its typical attention-grabbing title and cover, looks like one more interesting Christian book. But it is a totally amazing, life-changing, worldview altering experience. Lorren Cunningham disrupts the whole blasé Christian understanding of nations and cultures.This book really shows why YWAM with its diverse and multifaceted ministries (not sure if they still have Mercy Ships) is so cutting edge and vibrant and growing.Wow. If you want to know what the Holy Spirit thinks about your nation and about each of the other nations on the planet, and what he wants the body of Christ to do about their formidable challenges and crisis, pick up this amazing, amazing book. Every chapter is absorbing and totally exciting. Everyone has to read this book.

I loved this book, so much that I have already given out a few copies to others as gifts. Cunningham convincely presents the truth that there is power in reading the word of God, the Bible, so much that it can effect what happens in a nation that carries out its truth. He tells many wonderful, historical cases of countries where a single person or a group of people were following the Bible's truths and changed the course of their country's history. It is so amazing to see that one book can shift history, transforming the nation toward good things. He gives good, practical ideas of getting the Bible into the world. I felt like this was a hope-filled solution to the world's great needs. The Bible leads us to Jesus and He is the answer to all our needs. Great book.

lots of interesting facts, and motivatingi'm glad it's now in my library (though it is not collecting dust) i am still reading it , chapter by chapter, nation by nationalso includes the story about the '7 mountains' ... how God spoke to Loren, Bill Bright, and Francis Shaeffer the same message now challenging us to walk the talk in practical culture influencing ways

Inspiring!! More than 40 writers, hundreds of years, 4 different languages, only one message!! The world wouldn't be the same without the Bible, is the truth about how God is decided to love His creation and let us understand it!!

Loren Cunningham believes that the Bible is responsible for most of the good that goes on in the world. He tells a number of interesting stories to back this point up: William Carey in India (borrowed from Vishal and Ruth Mangalwadi), Abraham Kuyper in Holland, Hans Hauge in Norway, South Korea, Pitcairn, Martin Luther in Germany, John Calvin in Geneva. Then he ties things together by offering biblical principles for transforming nations. He also tries to explain the case of Japan, which is prosperous but not very Christian, and writes about the hope biblical reformation offers for Latin America and Africa.The stories are great. (Read Mangalwadi's own books, as Loren recommends, for more details on India.) Many of the principles Loren gives also seem solid: the inter-relationship of unity and diversity, the interesting contention that Latin America derived a harmful machismo from the long Muslim occupation of Iberia, some of Loren's principles, such as "a determined few can . . . change the course of an entire country."I have two problems with the book. First, Cunningham is weak when it comes to numbers, or perhaps just plain sloppy. The claim that 6% of Japanese are "followers of Christ" is absurd. (I've lived in the country for six years, and taught hundreds of students; stats I've seen show that less than 1% go to church.) Nor are there "110 million" Christians in China yet; the true number is probably about half that. (I'm a scholar of Chinese religion, and have interviewed people around China about their faith, or lack thereof.) When I told Cunningham the number was off, he said he got it from David Barrett, and that's who he was going with. But Barrett is wrong; shouldn't that make a difference? This makes me wonder about other "factoids" that Loren throws out: biological knowledge doubles every 180 days, the wealth of India is controlled by five families. It seems to me preachers of the Gospel should be more careful with their facts.The second problem with the book is it seems to me Cunningham over-generalizes. I agree the Gospel has had a tremendous redeeming effect on human society. I talk about that in my own books. (Most recently, The Truth Behind the New Atheism.) But you can't talk about progress without talking about other factors as well -- especially technological innovation and capitalism. Japan isn't the only non-Christian nation that has prospered lately. Communist China is quickly becoming wealthy, and so is India. Of course Christians and Christian principles may play a role, but it's not nearly as simple and straightforward as Cunningham implies.Read this book for the stories. For better research, and more careful thinking, I'd recommend Mangalwadi, Stark (some people have argued that Stark gets some of his facts wrong, too -- but the level of analaysis is far higher, and there's a lot more detail), and my own The Truth Behind the New Atheism.I love YWAM, and have gained a lot from my involvement with it over the years. But reading this book, I can see why I've always felt that the organization could use a little more input from thoughtful Christian scholars. The goal of missions, after all, is to preach Truth.

A great book, and a must read!

The author methodically presents the case for Bible-based living leading to better outcomes in the here-and-now. There is a lot of food for thought here, and a lot of good information.

Learned about the ways that small bible study groups operating in sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, and used to change a Christian's way of life can change his world.

Dieses Buch hat mich mega inspiriert. Loren Cunningham beschreibt wie die Bibel Einfluss auf unserer Geschichte genommen hat und Gottes Wort dazu beigetragen das unsere Gesellschaft heute Wohlstand und Bildung genießen darf. Mir wurde ein Bewusstsein geschaffen, wie wichtig Gottes Wort für unsere Gesellschaft ist. Ich mag die Geschichten, die er erlebt hat sehr.Fazit: Ich kann das Buch nur empfehlen. Ich selbst hab es bestimmt schon über 5 mal weiterverschenkt, weil ich so beeindruckt war.

Super Buch, im guten Zustand erhalten. Sogar von Loren signiert.

This is a really great book. It exalts God, helps one understand God's purposes in permitting all of the evil we see in the world today and provides much-needed ammunition for evangelism.