Invention: Think Different; Break Free From the Culture Hell Bent on Holding You Back by
Justin Camp
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
I was given an advanced copy of this book as part of a 'Launch Team'. I was asked to give an honest review.
This is an excellent book for a men's ministry. There is inside each man an inventor wanting to do something great. How do we know what it is that we are to do. We need to train ourselves to listen to the God who created us in the first place. Only through him can we learn what it is that we were invented for so that we can learn what we need to invent. It may not be a physical invention, it may be a need that you meet for others, and in fact it will often be.
The book has 8 chapters to it. The first one is an autobiographical look of the author. What he went through to be a success in his chosen field, and how he still felt that he needed to turn to the one who invented him to find true success. Chapters 2 through 8 look at one inventor, what they had to go through, to overcome, to make it through to create the invention that they had been successful with.
From Edison and seeing that he was not self made, to Bell, who wanted to help his deaf mother hear, Marconi, who had to figure out a way for the noise of the telegraph signals to be overcome, the Wright brothers having to overcome the feeling of not being able to accomplish something, and others. Each chapter brings us their story and how the author feels that we can use this in our lives. And then, we are guided in looking at each story with questions to make us think about why and how these are to influence our lives. The questions are designed to lead us deeper and understand things.
There are also some appendices that some of the chapters refer to. These take us deeper into what we are supposed to see in ourselves, what God is calling us to do and to get us launched out into doing it. These exercises are important.
As noted, the book could be used for men's group but also could be used in it's own as one man trying to find out his call in life.
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