“Never has the church been so affluent, … so educated,” he added. “I’m very excited about the idea that our churches could be known in our communities as the standard bearers for compassion.”

After more than 20 years of pastoring and discipling Christians, bestselling author Max Lucado is delving into a new apologetics – compassion.

“This whole idea of compassion being the best apologetic has really captured my heart,” he said.

It was some four to six years ago when Third Day band member Tai Anderson asked Lucado a challenging question.

“When your great grandchildren learn that you lived in a day in which a billion people were hungry and 27,000 people die every day of preventable diseases, how would they gauge your response?”

“The Lord used that question to wake me up,” Lucado said.

“I had devoted a lot of my life to discipleship things and to evangelism initiatives but I had to acknowledge that I had not done much in the area of compassion, which is really the third leg on the stool of Christian faith,” the renowned author, who currently serves as Minister of Preaching at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, realized.

With that, Lucado wrote his latest book Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference, hoping to inspire Christians to seize the opportunity to “rock the world with hope” and “take a stand for Christ in the area of compassion.”

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