By David Gregory
Published by Worthy Publishing
ISBN#978-1-936034-86-4
132 Pages
Back Cover:
Six years ago, businessman Nick Cominsky encountered Jesus the
old-fashioned way-in a face-to-face meeting. And the Christian life seemed a
breeze . . . for a while. But now, having done everything he knows to grow
spiritually, he wonders where his closeness with Jesus has gone. Burned out and
hopeless, Nicks wails his complaints to God during a late-night interstate
trip. Then suddenly he runs out of gas-and finds Jesus along the roadside with
a gas can. Jesus hops in the truck and offers answers Nick never heard in
church . . . and a nighttime of adventures ensues beyond anything Nick could
have imagined.
Review:
I was thrilled to learn David Gregory had a new book
out and I received a review copy of it in the mail. This authors’ books are
small (132 pages) but pack a powerful punch in so many areas. His books can be
read in a day and re-read as you share parts of them with friends and family
for months to come.
In his first book Dinner
with a Perfect Stranger a man receives an invitation to dine with Jesus.
Nick thinks this is a practical joke so he goes to claim his free dinner.
During the course of the meal he discovers that the guy across from him is
actually Jesus. This book was fun, funny, and a great witnessing tool. Nick
wants answers to Christianity and life. Jesus calmly answers Nick’s questions.
The encounter transforms his life! He can’t stop talking about his meeting
Jesus to anyone that will listen.
The next book in the series was called A Day with a Perfect Stranger, Nick’s wife Mattie goes on a
business trip. She’s thankful to be out of the house and away from her husband’s
talk about Jesus. She couldn’t take one more day of listening to Nick talk
about his dinner with Jesus, it had been three weeks non-stop. Enough already. Mattie is thankful to be on a plane and away
from any talk of Jesus.
As the flight goes on she talks with the person sitting next
to her. This man is different and things start to sound familiar. Soon, Mattie
realizes that she’s sitting next to Jesus. So much for running away from the
Jesus talk – she runs right into Jesus himself. Mattie confronts Him about the
rules laid down to follow in the Christian life, She wants to know exactly what
it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus?
Now starts David Gregory’s new book Night with a Perfect Stranger.
This book opens up by bringing the reader up to speed just like I did
about the first two encounters. Six years have passed and life isn’t as easy or
filled with Joy like it used to be. Life had made so much sense after
encountering Jesus. Nick says to himself, “I slowly lost it, whatever “it” was.
My closeness to God, my excitement about Jesus, the sense of purpose and
meaning He brought. I’m not sure when it started fading. I hadn’t lost my
faith. Far from it. But the life that faith was supposed to produce – where was
it? I thought meeting Jesus would energize me for a life time. But for the past
4 years I’d been slowly coasting downhill.”
David Gregory hits another home run with his new book. It’s
just as fun, funny, insightful, and unique. What I’ve loved about all of these
authors’ books is the way he shares concepts about the Christian life in a
simple way. For instance, he explains
through Jesus to Nick about God being love. I got a kick out of this.
Jesus asks Nick about the ocean, He asks “did you go
swimming?”
“Sure”
“How much wet did it have?”
“The whole thing was wet – it was the ocean.”
“Exactly.” Jesus looked at me, “Nick, we are like the ocean.
The ocean doesn’t have wet – it is wet. You jump in, you get wet. God doesn’t
have love – we are love! Our love isn’t a possession. We can’t give it away as
a reward to those good enough to earn it. Love is simply who we are. We love
you because of who we are….nothing you do can change that.. God is love.”
Wow, I love how he explained that concept. Simple and
profound. This is just one of the many jewels inside the treasure box of David
Gregory’s new book. The concept of Gods love for me hit me deep; do I really
grasp this for my own life? I read this book in several hours. You’ll be
re-reading all the parts you marked in your book to friends and family for
days. You’ll never for get these books, two of them have been made into movies
that stay faithful to the books. I highly recommend Night with a Perfect Stranger and all the other books this author’s
written.
Reviewed by: Nora St.Laurent
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