This book is so needed now! Rev’d Anders has written a very good and challenging book on trust. Right up front he states: “Trust is always relational, trust always exists in the space between a person and someone or something else. A bit like love.” He proceeds with great clarity acknowledging the relationship between trust and suspicion and our ability to even trust. He courageously examines how we can trust through uncertainty and when things go wrong. Anders doesn’t soft soap the reality that things can and do go wrong in the lives of Christians. But yet God is always present returning us to trust which is always about a relationship. The poignant sharing of Bill Johnson’s deep grief after his beloved wife died brings this point of God’s presence in the darkest time home: “There are aspects of God’s presence you can only find in the valley of the shadow of death.”
Anders then delves into the astounding relationship of trust between Jesus, the Son of God and His Father. And the trust the Father gave to Jesus is now given to us. Not earned or deserved but trust given to us to go and do likewise. In all of Anders treatment of this timely issue of trust during a difficult time in our world, he not only shares some of his own testimony and struggles with trust but challenges us through thoughtful exercises after each chapter to examine our own relationship with trust.
I highly recommend Healing Trust both for individual study as well as group study.
Rev’d Dr Sharon G. Lewis
President, The International Order of St Luke the Physician
Founder and President, Amazing Love Healing Ministry