As promised in yesterday’s blog post, here’s my review of The Ambition.
Is it possible for a church to get so big, and gain so much power, that it affects the actions of that church’s head pastor? Do you think if you led a huge church, would your heart still be grounded in preaching the gospel, or, would your faith falter as greed took over your personality?
Reverend Snow, the head pastor at the huge Diamond Point Fellowship church, has made a big announcement – he’s stepping down as pastor so that he can run for office. His peers are stunned, including Art, his assistant pastor. Meanwhile, as the story progresses, a strange series of events occur at this church, newsworthy events about miraculous healings. Snow wants to keep quiet about these miracles – he doesn’t want the public to view him as a religious freak.
The story also involves a lawyer, Tom O’Sullivan, with a gambling problem who comes to one of the members at Diamond Point for help. Can Tom put his apprehensions aside and lean on Christ? His gambling is overtaking his life, making him miserable, resulting in his making some traumatic decisions that affect the lives of others.
There’s also a journalist involved, Gary Strider. His live-in relationship is on the rocks because his girlfriend has been recently saved. He starts investigating Diamond Point – what kind of a church is this? The large auditorium certainly does not look like a church.
There’s also elements of mystery, intrigue, and murder woven into the story as the characters work through their issues – issues that involve God, Diamond Point church, as well as the political race.
This book was interesting and I found myself turning the pages, wanting to see what happened next. As I stated in yesterday’s blog post, I really liked the fact that the author had healing miracles in the story – that’s something I rarely see in Christian fiction nowadays – at least the miracles I’ve read about in the past aren’t shown the way this author portrayed in The Ambition.
If you like action and adventure-filled Christian fiction, then you should give this book a try.
Again, is it possible for a church to get so big, and gain so much power, that it affects the actions of that church’s head pastor? Do you think if you led a huge church, would your heart still be grounded in preaching the gospel, or, would your faith falter as greed took over your personality?
Leave your response in the comments.
I haven’t heard of this book, but I’m adding it to my TBR list because of your review.
Temptation is everywhere and one of the snares Satan uses to tempt us is success. It takes a truly humble man, one who keeps his eye on the Cross, to not fall victim to this. Only God knows a man’s heart but, look around…
Hi, Patricia
If you read the book, be sure to let me know what you thought about it. I believe this is the author’s first novel, although, he’s had several non-fiction books that he’s written and the NF books have made the NY Times Bestseller List, I believe.