City on our Knees

Toby Mckeehan (Tobymac)

City on our Knees

Bethany House Publishers

Bloomington, Minnesota 2010

This was a book full of the stories of Christians who did not see division in them and others, but instead stepped out in faith and love and ended up impacting lives, cities, countries, and the world. I learned that differences, not division, is what our God is about. He made people in all different ways, and all to glorify Him! He gets glory in diversity. I also learned that, "Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are". I saw many times, people who were just "ordinary". But they saw God in a big way, and God used them in a big way. It is the same for us. Many times, God just uses the humble people who show their need of Him, and then step out in faith across their own comfort zones.

The book was great in showing diversity, faith, and trust in God. I really enjoyed the stories. Although, it seems to me that whenever some profit wants to be gained, and you don't really have a good author, they just write a book with a lot of stories of other people. And although it was great, I would have liked to hear more thoughts and contents from the author. And I wish it were a bit longer also.

City on our Knees is about a "moment. A moment that we all come together and our differences fall by the wayside and love fills in the cracks, and we turn our attention on what unites us." I'm not sure myself what this has to do with the words "City on our Knees", but that's what Tobymac said, and it sounds good to me. I think in simpler terms, it means "a place where people forget what divides us, and instead, come to our knees is worship of the King.' 

It does seem to be true. Although it would be possible that parts were added to make the stories better/more exciting.

-Kade