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The most destitute people in society are searching for anything to numb their hurting souls. And there are some who display the most extreme mix of need and anticipation: the twenty-piece shuffle, a jittery walk marked by wide-eyed desperation, named after the price of a drug fix.
But the addiction to numb a troubled spirit is not confined to the streets. Suffering is not bound by social class, and pain is not protected by white-picket fences. Yet in a wealthy society that equates money with happiness, we often are unaware of own addictions.
Greg Paul believes that the rich, the impoverished, can learn much from each other. Join Greg as takes a look at a remarkable paradox, where the poor can miss their blessedness while the wealthy overlook their own desperate needs.
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Blessed Are the Poor..., Oct 6 2008
By Curtis L. Honeycutt - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Twenty-Piece Shuffle (Paperback)
(review from bravenotsafe.blogspot.com)If you haven't heard about Greg Paul yet, maybe now's the time to go to Amazon and buy his books.
Paul's first book, God in the Alley: Being and Seeing Jesus in a Broken World, was published a few years ago and completely wrecked me...in a good way. In it, he shares some heart-wrenching stories about his community in inner city Toronto. Paul is an author/pastor/local rock star who started a ministry called Sanctuary that reaches out to homeless (they prefer "under-housed") and fully housed people under the same roof. He started the community center/church hybrid out of a rock band called Red Rain.
I am fortunate enough to have visited Sanctuary first hand back in February with my fellow justice-seeker, Barry, and some other friends from our church. We got to spend some time walking the cold winter streets of Toronto and seeing how God can work miraculously in seemingly hopeless situations. The stories shared by Greg and members of Sanctuary's community are humbling (an understatement).
In his latest effort, The Twenty Piece Shuffle: Why the Rich and the Poor Need Each Other, Paul transparently shares the incredible stories of Sanctuary ministries and applies them to the fact that everyone--rich and poor alike--needs intimate relationships and a strong sense of purpose and identity in life. These stories are heartbreaking and often troubling, and I'm so glad Paul shared them with us. This book will change your perspective on rich and poor and how God fits into all the suffering in the mess of the world.
If you haven't read either of Paul's offerings yet, I would start with God in the Alley. It's kind of like the intro-level course to Twenty Piece Shuffle.
These books are a great way to engage your heart and your mind in the causes of justice for the poor.
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Another great book by Greg Paul, Mar 30 2010
By Ransom - Published on Amazon.com
Greg Paul is one of the finest writers in the Christian world. And his work among the poor gives him a wise outlook on life that the rest of us can benefit greatly from. Highly recommended.
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